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A RECORD OF PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES 



A SERIES OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS DEALING 
WITH THE WORLD OF FACTS, THE WORLD OF IDEALS 
AND THE WORLD OF REALITIES BEYOND DEATH 



"So from me world of Spirit mere descends 
A bridge of light connecting it -wim mis." 



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Copyright igi8 
By The Christopher Publishing House 



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FOREWORD. 

These communications were received by a small 
group of persons belonging to the same family, under 
the conditions more or less clearly indicated in the 
writings themselves. They purported to come from a 
very lofty spiritual influence who desired to be known 
by the name of Insight. He stated in our first inter- 
view in reply to urgent entreaty, that he had lived on 
this earth in the fifteenth century. He was a poor 
monk but he is now in one of the heavenly spheres and 
his mission is to teach those who are seeking spiritual 
knowledge. He preferred to call the members of the 
group by names symbolic of certain qualities — such as 
Aspiration, Courage and Endurance. His teachings 
contain great truths and since the beautiful personali- 
ties who bore these names have all passed into that 
higher sphere, so graphically described by Insight — 
this record is now published by one who discerns its 
great value. 



PREFACE 

The two or three interviews with Insight, which 
preceded the one with which this volume begins, were 
not preserved for the reason that it was not known 
the writings would have any definite sequence. When 
we became impressed with the value of the teachings we 
were careful to copy them accurately. I cannot be 
sure some slight errors may not have occurred m the 
copying for at the first we did not always keep a record 
of the questions asked, and it was necessary sometimes 
to supply these from memory. This, together with in<- 
experience on the part of the questioners will account 
for most of the repetitions and slight contradictions 
which appear. 



INSIGHT 

COMMUNICATION I. 

Insight, are you present in this room or do you in- 
fluence the writer from where you are? "From where 
I always am — and you are with me, not I with you." 

Then there is no spiritual presence here? "The 
spiritual presence of what you are is always with you." 

What kind of a body have you? "I have a heavenly 
body ; there are bodies terrestrial, and there are bodies 
celestial." 

How do you happen to come to us? "I am one of the 
links, in the chain that connects heaven and earth. Per- 
haps you will understand better by my saying I am a 
part of a channel through which the Divine flows. I 
am really in the Celestial, but I can communicate 
through other links." 

What does that mean? "The many that form the 
chain of which I told you." 

How can we improve in spiritual things? "By the 
teachings of Christ." 

Will you always come to us? "I have many other 
duties which you could not understand. Very soon I 
go to another part of the universe, not your world." 

Are you going to another city? "No, to another 



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order of creation altogether; it is quite beyond any- 
earthly knowledge." 

Are there any more worlds like ours? "None just 
like this earth." 

Are there not seven including ours? "Yes, and 
many more ; they are the bodies of the real worlds which 
are their souls." 

How many worlds do you visit? "I go to all of 
which you are a part." 

Will you not tell us how many, and what they are? 
"You know what your system consists of, do you 
not? There are more than your scientists have dis- 
covered, for each world has its spiritual counterpart. 
The spiritual worlds are the real worlds, and your earth 
is but a shadow of its heaven. There are really twenty- 
one worlds in your system; that means the planets 
which are visible to your eyes, and others of which you 
can know nothing with your present senses." 

How did you develop your spiritual condition when 
you were on earth? "I was kept in a spiritual condi- 
tion by nursing the sick." 

Were you a physician on earth? "No, I was a poor 
monk, sunk in superstition and ignorance." 

How could nursing the sick keep you in a spiritual 
condition? "As you are in sympathy with your brother, 
you are in sympathy with the Father of all." 

How do you come to us, and why ? "You are brought 
to me, by your great desire for spiritual growth. It 
is my mission to help all who are cultivating their in- 
sight into higher things." 

Are you in heaven, and are you perfectly happy? 



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"Yes, but not in the highest heaven ; and though I am 
full to my present capacity, I shall expand more and 
more." 

Do you remember the events of your human life? 
"I do not, unless I am brought into a state for that 
purpose, where I can realize them." 

Is Christ God? "He is as much of God as the finite 
mind can understand." 

Is not the spiritual part of mankind, part of God? 
"We shall all, in the end, form part of the Perfect 
Man." 

Is the life of Christ as told in the New Testament, 
true? "In its spiritual sense, it is." 

Was Christ not simply man? "No; he was God re- 
vealed to man." 

Is the account of his conception and birth correct? 
"That idea is as near as sensuous man can understand 
it." 

Do you ever see Christ? "It depends upon my spir- 
itual condition." 

Does your condition change or vary? "Yes; every- 
thing but the Infinite is liable to change." 

Is not Christ where you can always see him? "Christ 
is like the sun; he is always in the highest heavens, 
for our light, but we cannot always see him." 

What is the allotted time for man to live? "Nearly 
a hundred years is the allotted time, if you live as you 
should. A man should live the first three sevens of his 
life in gaining strength ; the next four sevens he attains 
to his full maturity, and now he only lives about another 
three sevens, and this should not be. The life of man 
now is but seventy years, which is not his full time." 



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How should we live, to attain the normal age ? "Live 
more naturally, not eating or drinking or dressing to 
make yourselves uncomfortable or unhealthy, simple 
food and only to satisfy hunger, not to gratify appe- 
tite." 

Will you tell us something about the manner of your 
coming to us ? "I really do not reach you for you obtain 
all knowledge from one source and that is within you. I 
am called "INSIGHT" for convenience. I reach your 
outer understanding, but it is not I but God who is in 
you and forms a part of you." 

What is our first condition in the world where we go 
after death? "One must learn to live in the spiritual 
world, as the infant in the physical world. At first all is 
received as by little children but afterward it is different ; 
you assert your individuality and seek what you desire. 
If good, you seek good, but if not, you seek evil. Death 
does not change you ; you always bring with you, your- 
self or character." 

Has Christ ever returned to earth since his resur- 
rection and ascension? "Christ comes to the earth con- 
tinually but is only visible to pure spirit." 

Has he ever come in a material form since his life 
here? "Never." 

Are Christ and God the same? "Christ is the highest 
manifestation of the great Unseen One possible to man. 
No man has ever seen God but as Christ has revealed 
Him. To man in his present condition, God is above all 
that he can possibly conceive." 

It is right to worship Christ ? "Man is right to wor- 
ship his highest conception of the Divine or else he 
could not worship at all. Through Christ or through 



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the love of God brought within man's comprehension, 
God made the world. If you worship God at all you 
must worship some intelligent conception of Him and 
you can have none without giving Him a personality." 

Are God and Christ identical? "You are taught in 
the book that 'My Father is greater than I.' You have 
also learned that 'In the end all things shall be delivered 
up, that God may be all in all.' " 

What is the meaning of "All in all?" "That God 
may be in all creation, and all creation in Him. It is the 
surrender of matter to spirit." 

Why is M 's guardian angel called Courage? 

"The meaning of courage I must explain, in order 
that you may understand me when I say that in spiritual 
things it is the great power to overcome that courage 
is in the physical world. You know the distinction 
between brute courage and moral courage. You also 
wish to know about Endurance. Endurance and cour- 
age are attributes of a high order of spiritual attain- 
ment and are near akin, courage being more active and 
endurance more passive. Endurance in the natural 
world gives strength to resist ; in the spiritual it also 
resists, but courage does more, it not only resists but 
it creates. The combination of aspiration, courage and 
endurance is rare and has made this communication 
possible. If they were in the same spirit, in one per- 
sonality, they would produce wonderful results. Often 
aspiration is only a sentiment, but united with the 
others it is more ; it is an active element ; together, the 
union is worthy of entering my sphere." 

What is faith? "Faith is the highest reach of the 
earth-bound soul." 



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Should we not pray believing that our prayers will 
be answered? "Yes; faith in spiritual chemistry is 
what some acids are in material. You know how some 
acids make new combinations. That explains how, 
without changing laws, prayer can be answered." 

Can this apply to material things as far as faith is 
concerned ? "Yes ; prayer for material things is an- 
swered. Prayer is always good, if not selfish, for it 
is bringing oneself into union with God." 

Can you tell us something more of the world where 
one goes immediately after death? "The spiritual 
world which lies within your present abode is of great 
interest to you and it is legitimate for you to inquire 
about. The spiritual world next to your own is a world 
analogous to your present one, and when you reach it 
you will enjoy yourselves in many ways as you do in 
your present one. It will also be a world in which you 
will learn to know yourself as you really are for you 
will then be unclothed." 

Do you come to many as you do to us? "All who 
desire insight into real truth come to me or to one of 
my company." 

How could we communicate with you if we had no 
one who could write? "The conditions are unusual, 
which is the cause of the freedom of our intercourse." 

How do you write through Endurance? "I use her 
physical strength in the same manner that all thought 
uses the brain force." 

COMMUNICATION II. 

What is spiritual force? "Spiritual force is the love 



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of the Divine put into action on a material plane. 
Spiritual force first projected itself into matter, and 
humanity must bring it back to its source. Creation 
was devised for this purpose. Endurance, think of 
what I said about first material and then spiritual and 
that is one of the answers to that thought. To your 
material senses first what is natural, then what is spir- 
itual. God first projected Himself into the lowest forms 
of matter and is gradually bringing matter back to 
Himself." 

How long has this process been going on? "There is 
no way by which you could be made to understand the 
immense number of ages." 

Was matter at first more spiritual than it is now? 
"No, matter was never spiritual in itself, but when 
man became fit for the divine spark, matter began to 
be capable of rising." 

Is God an intelligent individuality? "God is all in- 
telligence, there is no intelligence which is not God." 

Why did God project Himself into matter? "That is 
a question which I, with all my insight could not under- 
stand. Can man find out God or understand Him? 
Only God can understand God. The first intentions of 
such a being must forever remain undiscovered." 

Would you tell us what you think about it? "What 
I think is, that as God is love His desire is to be loved 
in return." 

Do we manifest our love to God by loving humanity? 
"That is the only way back to God, each man has his 
divine spark; the only way in which it is possible to 
kindle a great fire is in the unity of all these separate 
sparks. As man loves his brother he unites his spark 



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of the Divine with his brothers' and helps to bring 
all back again to the original source." 

Can that part of God in man called Soul or Spirit be 
contaminated by sin? "Sin drives it out of a man but 
it cannot contaminate it or destroy it for it is eternal." 

Then those who sin are in danger of having that part 
of God driven out of them? If so what becomes of it? 
"If they drive out the spirit it returns to Him who 
gave it." 

Why does not the Divine overcome the brute instinct? 
"Man is still developing and God has all eternity in 
which to complete His plans." 

Will the time come when all creation will revert back 
to God ? "Yes : that is the purpose of creation." 

When a man by sin drives God out of him what be- 
comes of his personality? "His body as it is material 
is not lost ; as you know, nothing that constitutes man 
in his complete form can be lost." 

What part is yours and what part is the writer's 
in these communications? "My part is to open her 
spiritual perceptions, her part is to give them form. 
She must be more trustful, the intelligence is already 
dormant in her spirit. I give the insight, she puts it 
into words. You get insight into truth which always 
existed. Truth is eternal." 

Will you explain the doctrine of the Trinity as taught 
in Churches? "The Trinity is the three aspects of God 
which human souls can assimilate and is not God, for 
God cannot be apprehended by humanity. The Father 
is "Wisdom." The Son is Love. The Spirit is the 
taking of that love into the soul. The result is that 
the soul becomes God. Christ said 'I am the way' for 



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it is the only way to understand the wisdom of God 
which is the Father. I wish to tell you of Christ. 
What the spirit of God is to each soul Christ is to 
united humanity. Christ came to show what is pos- 
sible for humanity to attain. The spirit of God that 
was in him had never before occupied any body, nor 
was ever made manifest. Your own perceptions must 
try to appropriate this mystery. Christ was direct 
from the Father." 

Do you ever see Christ? "Christ is always visible if 
my spiritual state is receptive. All that humanity can 
ever attain was manifested in Christ; man can form 
no image of God, he can only think of Him." 

Is it right to worship Christ? "You must worship 
what you understand and if you love you will gradually 
know something of the Father, that is wisdom." 

Are you in the spiritual world? "No: I am in heaven, 
the spiritual world is where all earthly things are left, 
where the soul is unclothed and prepared for heaven. 
There are many spheres in that world." 

What is the process of passing from that world to 
heaven? "The soul in that world follows its own 
affinities, as the body does on earth, and when it is 
prepared it comes into the state we call heaven." 

Will you describe the process, and tell us how long 
the soul remains in the spiritual world? "You leave 
there all your appetities, all your natural soul, and the 
time you are there depends on the use you have made of 
your opportunities in your world." 

Do you ever visit the spiritual world? "In a spiritual 
way as I seem to come to you." 

What is the process of arriving at such a spiritual 



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condition that we could go to that world? "You can 
find the right process for it has been revealed to you 
in the life of the Perfect Man. You do not understand 
but if you will investigate you will learn. You are not 
far advanced for you are learning by imperfect light, 
not by the sun." 

How can I learn by a perfect light? "By the life 
of Christ as you well know. Have you ever studied 
that life with a desire to see what help you could get 
from it for your improvement." 

How about all the ages before Christ was revealed? 
"There have always been spirits who were filled with the 
Holy fire but when the race of man was fit for Christ 
who was the fire itself, he came." 

What was man's spiritual condition before Christ? 
"Before Christ his forerunners were keeping men in 
spiritual connection with the Divine wisdom." 

Can the blood of Christ wash away human sin? 
"That is the intellectual lie, blood as a symbol is love, 
for blood, is the life of the body, as love is the life of 
the soul." 

Where are we to look for the truth? "In your spir- 
itual perceptions which receive their education through 
living a life of love and so bringing the soul into unity 
with God." 

Are the gospels as we have them true? "The gospels 
are true in their spiritual meaning. The gospels were 
written for all men and they must be apprehended, 
first literally then spiritually. The gospels are worth 
your most serious study for in them you find the clear- 
est statement in regard to spiritual things." 

Were they directly inspired by God? "They were all 



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written by men, that is the words that compose them 
were of men but the spirit or soul is of God." 

Are you in the same place with Paul? "The holy 
spirit whom you mean is above and beyond my state. 
In heaven there are many mansions." 

Have you music in heaven? "There is music, for 
music was not an invention of man it was a discovery." 

What are your occupations in heaven? "I have 
many duties and many pleasures which in your present 
state you could not comprehend but they are analogous 
to those which make up your life." 

Have you time there? "Time is measured only as 
sensation and it is recorded by your state toward God, 
when in perfect accord it is sunlight, when out of ac- 
cord it is twilight." 

What form have you, and are you visible? "The 
form' of a man and I am visible to all who are in per- 
fect harmony with me." 

Have you names ? "Yes : we have names which signify 
to ourselves and others our spiritual state." 

Did you remain long in the spiritual world? "I had 
to be taught many things for I had not your oppor- 
tunities of learning the perfect way of holiness." 

Was the world more material in your day? "The 
world was not as material, perhaps, as it is now, but 
intellectually it was more ignorant, therefore your dan- 
ger is all the greater; man must keep his spiritual 
nature in advance of his intelligence or great evils will 
befall humanity." 

Is this not a period of time when greater light is to 
be given? "No greater light can ever be given, but man 
can open the windows of his soul and receive it if 



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he will and the day of such opening is approaching." 

Do you think that I could ever have any power to 
communicate with your world? "You have great power 
for your earnest nature makes you very receptive." 

How have I power? "You are thinking of some vis- 
ible power and I of some spiritual power, and I do not 
think the former is necessary in your case for your 
spiritual eyes can behold the truth. Your spiritual 
eyes already see much that is true and when your life 
and endeavors are in perfect accord you will be con- 
scious of what, now, is only dim and vague to your 
vision." 

Do you see those you knew on earth? "In this world 
we are with those of our day and generation who are 
in our spiritual state." 

Do we keep the same friends? "No: for sometimes 
on earth our affinities are not our real ones." 

After the spirit is once born does it ever leave us? 
"The growth of the spirit in the soul is very slow but 
it goes on when there is sincere desire though you may 
not perceive it." 

Do many seek this kind of communion? "Many 
seek, but the conditions are not often so favorable. 
There is the union of Aspiration which seeks, Endur- 
ance which can bear the strain, and Courage which 
achieves. Where two or three are gathered together in 
my name, there am I in the midst, said the Master." 

How can we get more light? "You do not need any 
illumination, what you need is to lead a life in unison 
with what you already know." 

Are there men who have supernatural power? 



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"There is no supernatural power for all is done by law, 
and there are no living men who can do anything 
against the laws of nature. There are men who have 
subjugated to themselves the elementary powers and 
use them, but it is not well for men must come to such 
knowledge in the way appointed which is by the use of 
their intelligence and intellectual powers ; for example ; 
man has conquered nature through study and can send 
his thought around the world which is the appointed 
way, not the way you are thinking of." 

Is not the guardian angel always the opposite in sex? 
"Yes : that is one of the most beautiful of God's laws 
in the education of the soul." 

COMMUNICATION III. 

INSIGHT: "I wish to speak with Investigation. 
Through his intellect man studies the natural world; 
the result is called science. With his spiritual percep- 
tions he studies the spiritual world; the result is Revel- 
ation. I wish to direct you in your search after the 
truth ; if you wish to know the laws of science, you take 
advantage of the knowledge that has been accumulated 
by men ; do the same if you would learn spiritual things. 
Christ is the way. You can only find him by your own 
development but you can be helped by what others have 
said and known of him. You can only be satisfied in 
your search by him. It is but in it you can be perfect, 
if you go to the fountain head." 

Are we not looking in the right direction? "You 
are in the right direction for man must first subdue 



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himself, and possess himself if he would be free, and 
freedom is the first essential." 

Are you ever with Endurance except at these times 
when she is writing? "Yes, I am often with her, always 
when she seeks insight into truth of any kind." 

Are you ever with others of us? "You all belong to 
my society and you can always have my assistance not 
by writing but as spirit speaks to spirit, I respond when- 
ever you gain a clear insight into any subject connected 
with your development." 

What do you mean by your society? How can we 
be advanced enough for that? "In the spiritual worlds 
there are social circles as there are with you, and you 
are members of the one to which I belong and which I 
represent." 

That is curious? "No it is not curious because you 
are all in sympathy, and advancement has nothing to do 
with it. Is an infant as advanced as its parents? 

Shall we remember the events of this life when we go 
to the spiritual world? "You will." 

Can you remember the events of your earth life? 
"I can be brought into that state but it is not well." 

Shall we be able to remember the incidents of this 
writing? "As a part of your spiritual growth you 
will remember. You remember what you appropriate 
of what I give you." 

What name shall we know you by when we meet in 
heaven? "There are new names here which you cannot 
now understand, but you will know me and I shall be a 
real personality to you all. I do not think you could 
know me now as you will here for matter shuts out 
spirit and you must wait, but a few years are not much." 



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A friend thinks this communication is not wise, for 
he says some bad influence might come into it without 
our knowledge? "The thought is a good one for such 
things often occur but never with such as you are, and 
I shall see that you are not troubled with the multitude 
who are watching and waiting to say their word." 

What do you mean by the multitude? "There are 
many spirits near your earth, some disembodied souls, 
some who belong to another sphere of existence." 

Does it cost you anything of your spirituality when 
we come to you in this way? "No: it is my highest 
pleasure and my duty." 

We are asked whether your present standpoint on 
the subject of Christ comes from your education and 
opinions while in your earth life? "From my standpoint 
there is nothing to take but Christ, but I see the thought 
in your mind brought from the mind of your friend. 
He referred to my standpoint on earth. I am far be- 
yond that now. That was not even the standpoint 
from which you regard Christ, for I knew nothing then 
but what I Was taught by a narrow creed." 

How do you cause the mechanical part of this writ- 
ing? "By my will power." 

Is this your hand writing? "I never learned to write 
on earth." 

What becomes of those who never heard of Christ? 
"Every one goes where his works and his character 
entitle him to go. God judges no man, man judges 
himself." 

What is the best way to understand Christ? "The 
way is to accept Christ historically and spiritually, to 
live his life and be one with him in spirit ; accept his 



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teachings by following his commands and you must do 
this as you would learn or acquire a science, little by 
little, do not think you can accept Christ as you would 
a belief in an ordinary person, you must come to him 
gradually." 

Were the gospels not written for political purposes ? 
"No: Christ gave his spirit to those who wrote of him 
and the story of his life on earth, as Jesus the man and 
his teachings as Christ the manifested are all that are 
needful for your study." 

What do we take with us to heaven? "One carries 
nothing but Truth into heaven. Into the first state 
after death, that is, into the spiritual world, man carries 
all of himself, but his outer or fleshly body. There all 
your false thoughts are taken from you ; as I told you, 
the soul is unclothed." 

Do we have any temptations after leaving earth? 
"Yes: for many temptations come from the reason and 
the will power and you take them both with you into 
your first state, and even in heaven man is free and 
could sin if he would. There is no cannot in our lan- 
guage." 

Then the sooner we get rid of sin, the better? The 
less sin you bring with you into the spiritual world the 
shorter time is necessary for your unclothing." 

Can we pass from heaven to other spheres ? "Yes ; 
man goes where he will here even more than he possibly 
can on your earth." 

Is one unconscious at first after death? "Yes: for 
some days, usually not longer, but when you first come 
into the world of spirits you are received as a child is 



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on your earth, with loving hands to minister to your 
new wants, and loving hearts to care for you as long 
as you will allow them." 

Do little children go straight to heaven when they 
die? "Little children whose angels are always in the 
Father's presence are taken at once into a nursery for 
such tender plants, and are supremely happy." 

Do you believe in the doctrine of Reincarnation? 
"Yes, it is a fundamental truth." 

Can you give us some further information about 
Reincarnation? "Do you think seventy years of life 
on earth is to be repaid with an eternity of happiness. 
Do you not see that matter has its limitations? Mil- 
lions and millions are born into the world but they are 
not always, indeed, they are never in this epoch of time, 
new creations, as there is no new creation of matter to 
receive them." 

Are they not given new bodies? "They are, but 
matter is not re-created for them at each incarnation. 
Christ taught this truth." 

When he said John the Baptist was Elias ? "He said 
that, and he also said in another place that a certain 
man was not born blind to expiate sin." 

What is the unpardonable sin? "Do not confuse 
your mind on the subject of sin, to live your natural 
life if you only give it its true place is not sin. Sin is to 
deny the spirit within you and Christ said all sin would 
be forgiven but this." 

Can sin be forgiven? "There is no such thing as 
forgiveness. If you break a natural law disease fol- 
lows ; if you break a spiritual law the same result occurs 



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and in the nature of things the consequences must fol- 
low." 

What did Christ mean by denying the spirit ? "How 
can you live if you have no food or fire to keep your 
natural life; how then can your spiritual life exist if 
you cover up and put out the fire of the Holy Ghost." 

Is the process of passing from the spiritual world 
anything like death? "Nothing of the sort, it is more 
as if you went of your own accord to a better country 
and a sunnier clime." 

Is heaven a state or a place? "It is both a state and 
a place, the state makes the place as it often does in 
your natural life." 

Can you return from heaven after you go there? 
"Yes ; you can return if you are sent." 

How can we help those we love who do not believe as 
we do? " First of all by your life." 

Is it right to pray for those who have passed away? 
"Yes; it is always right. Are they not in the Father's 
hands." 

Is there such a place as purgatory? "The spiritual 
world is a heaven to some, a purgatory to others, but 
this same is true of your earthly state." 

Is there any suffering there? "Yes; there is suffer- 
ing in judging oneself, and sometimes great pain is 
felt in seeing oneself as one is, in the sight of purer 
spirits." 

Is there envy or jealousy there? "At first you take 
all the emotions of your intellect with you." 

Do we have guides there? "Yes; many whose busi- 
ness is to prepare you for this self -judgment." 

Does judgment come immediately? "No; you are 



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happy whatever your life may have been, and you seem 
to yourself like a visitor in a wonderful and strange 
land." 

Do we have to suffer for our evil deeds in our next 
incarnation? "Those are things that do not much con- 
cern you, now, sufficient to the day is the evil thereof." 

I do not feel satisfied to think I must be just the same 
there that I am here. "Yes ; you will be satisfied for you 
will improve while on your earth, and much more here, 
until your present ideal of virtue will seem to you almost 
like sin." 

I wish I could influence others more! "The wish is 
the parent of what you will gradually attain, even in 
your present life." 

Will you explain something about Reincarnation? 
"I will use an analogy from the natural world to ex- 
plain. In a small apple seed there lies the harvest of 
many summers, and in the human soul there lies all the 
possibilities of hundreds of lives." 

Is the objective part of life much shorter than the 
subjective? "The objective life is much the shorter of 
the two but it varies in the most infinite manner to suit 
all the varieties of human souls." 

About what is the proportion? "I should say about 
forty to one, this refers to the great majority." 

Do you communicate with others on this earth and 
how ? "Yes ; many, some through writing others 
through their mental vision, and some few through their 
spiritual perceptions, that is, without words and with- 
out thought as you understand it." 

The last is the highest ? "Yes ; for it is as we com- 
municate here." 



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How is this last communication possible? "The 
spiritual condition of the one receiving from me, makes 
it possible." 

Can we cultivate this faculty? "Yes ; perception will 
grow if you will give it suitable conditions." 

What are the conditions? "The bringing your will 
into union with God's will and living a pure and blame- 
less life." 

Can you say anything to help "Courage?" "Courage 
needs little help from outside, she has the inner light 
by which she leads her good life." 

And Endurance? "She needs much help but she also 
obtains it for she receives the good from all and has 
the power of enduring the evil without its entering into 
her life." 

("Courage") I feel as though I needed some help? 
"You are helped whenever you find you have something 
to give to another. It has come direct to you from your 
spiritual connection with our society." 

I feel as though some persons retarded our growth? 
"Every one who is growing must find a congenial soil, 
and like a plant must have its right conditions and sur- 
roundings." 

In leaving "INSIGHT" said "I am always glad to 
see you, that is, to eat with you the same spiritual food 
that comes from our Father's hand." 

COMMUNICATION IV. 

At death does the soul pass beyond the currents of 
this earth? "Sometimes but it must always be carried 
by the spiritual soul." 



INSIGHT 29 

We are speaking of the soul we are born with. After 
death does it ever leave the earth's currents? "You 
mean during life. After the new birth, do not say 
death, the human soul goes into its first state. 

What is that state? "It depends upon the condition 
of the person who is reborn. As I explained before, in 
the spiritual world the soul or rather the spirit, loses 
its coverings and what you mean by the soul is one of 
these coverings or garments." 

Is the soul too, dropped later on? "Before you be- 
come a pure spirit, but that takes long probations and 
many experiences to accomplish. You carry your spir- 
itual soul which is not pure spirit till the very end." 

What is the end? "The end cannot be understood 
even by us." 

Do you object to our telling what you say to us? 
"No: for I desire to teach truth. But be careful, do not 
give meat to babes. Truth becomes falsehood if it gets 
into the wrong light." 

At what moment does the soul incarnate? "Which 
soul do you mean? The human soul is the germ of life 
and around that grows the physical body before birth." 

At what time is the spiritual soul incarnated? "At 
different times. The time the soul becomes an active 
agent is when the man becomes the master of himself 
and his actions." 

If a child dies before it is born, does it live on? "No; 
the human soul as I have just said must be carried by 
the spiritual soul." 

When does this soul that we have through life, first 
incarnate? "When the first breath of life is breathed 
as has been written, God breathes into man and he be- 



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comes a living soul, but that soul like the infant's body 
does not act for itself, till later. Man gets his human 
soul from his father, thus like produces like ; an animal 
gives an animal soul, a vegetable a vegetable soul of its 
kind likewise." 

Investigation spoke of being unable to comprehend 
the meaning of Paul? "That will come, for he, Paul, 
had wonderful insight into what was really meant by the 
Divine manifestation. I want to tell you something 
more about the churches and I have obtained permission 
to give you a light into a great mystery. I think you 
misunderstood me once when I said, "The Churches 
were a diseased body. It is true but a diseased body 
may be cured, and may contain a wonderful soul and so 
with the churches. Inside of the outer body is a spirit- 
ual body made up of the true church and as all bodies 
owe their life to constant disintegration, so the church 
is apparently falling to pieces, but is constantly built 
up again as is the natural body and the true church 
remains always intact. You are part of the true church 
and the mystery is that its form is that of Christ, and 
consequently, that of humanity. The part you are of 
is the 'Understanding' to which we, that is our society, 
belongs ; hence to the other parts we must be the 
teachers." 

Are there other societies? "Yes; there are as many 
as there are parts and you must get this idea clear in 
your minds. As in any part of your body there are 
many living particles, so in the spiritual body of which 
it is only the shadow there are many 1 small parts. Do 
you understand?" 

Are Christians one part, Buddhists another, and so 



INSIGHT 31 

on? "No; I mean that those with certain qualities, be- 
long to the understanding; those with others belong to 
the hands, some to the feet and some to the head of this 
body which is made up as is your physical body of many 
in one." 

What is our best way to teach and help others? 
"First to learn the true way, then to walk in it and last 
of all to bring others by the hand." 

Why did you come to us ? "When I first came to you 
it was because I knew, or rather was instructed for I 
know nothing of myself, that you six would be together 
and receive these communications." 

We six; do you not count M ? "Onward is 

very dear to you and to us all but she does not belong 
to our society. Onward belongs to the hands of the 
great body and her work is just as important as yours 
but I cannot hold direct communication with her, because 
it is not given to me." 

Could you not tell us -the name of Onward' s society? 
"Yes ; I know the name of her society in the heavens, 
but I only hold occasional communications with them. 
The name is "Energy," as with your body, the under- 
standing gives the work to the hands." 

What is the true meaning of the communion service? 
"The true meaning is that in a spiritual way you receive 
with the bread the wisdom of God, with the wine the 
Divine love. I mean that the bread and wine are sym- 
bols of these things and if you are truly receptive in 
your soul you receive these great attributes of God, as 
in your body you receive the bread and wine. To many 
this is only a ceremony and thus it was written that 
men could eat and drink damnation instead of life." 



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What is the best form of religion? "Form is body, 
body is form and that can be of no importance. The 
true church includes all who, having accepted the way, 
walk therein ; and religion cannot be a form ; whatever 
you find most conducive to general use as a plant takes 
from earth what it needs, so take from life what you 
find will make you blossom and beautify, as your desires 
grow more heavenly ; the outer form is necessary as 
body is always necessary to spirit on your earth, so try 
to find the body that suits you best and cling to it." 

Will you tell us of the crucifixion and resurrection 
of Christ? "You are asking a great deal for one time 
but we will begin. The death of Christ and his mode of 
death were inevitable for men would not allow such a 
pure life to exist in their atmosphere; it was not as 
some suppose, an expiation, his death was a part of his 
plan for it was necessary for him to die in order that 
he might prove that he governed death, as he did life, 
he said you know: No man taketh my life, but I lay it 
down of myself. His resurrection was exactly as it 
was recorded and is the great truth of your religion." 

Why did the disciples not recognize Jesus when he 
appeared to them after his death? "Because after 
his resurrection his body was a spiritual body and their 
natural eyes could not behold him ; when they really saw 
him it was with their spiritual eyes." 

What became of Christ's material body? "His phy- 
sical body returned immediately to the elements as he 
was amply able to have it do." 

That explains his ascension ? "It does ; and I am 
glad you are able to accept it." 

That is a new idea? "Why should I tell you things 



INSIGHT 3«5 

you already know. If I only did that I should not be a 
teacher." 

If Christ's body was a spiritual body how could 
Thomas see the wounds in his side? "Those wounds 
had sunk deeply into his spirit and the disciples saw 
him as he appeared at the time and as he willed they 
should see him. The passion of the God in humanity is 
a great mystery which we all desire to look into, but 
which requires the deepest and most spiritual insight." 

We do not understand what you mean by the passion 
of the God in humanity? "The sufferings of the God 
in Christ. I do not understand it myself and I could 
not convey to you even what I think I comprehend. 
Christ represents to the wisdom of God, humanity as a 
whole, and his sufferings, I think, represent all the pains 
and agony that the human race must undergo in becom- 
ing Christlike." 

Why is there no historical record of Christ? "His 
mission was not to the material world and he did not will 
that they should have any part in bringing him to the 
knowledge of mankind. His mission was spiritual and 
the spirit of each man must perceive him for himself. 
Is it not wonderful that a man historically unknown 
should have made the most lasting and permanent mark 
of any that ever existed." 

Where does the compensation for physical suffering 
come in? "Such sufferings are almost always expia- 
tory in their character and if accepted build up what 
you most need." 

What is the condition of persons who die of old age? 
"At first they are as they leave the earth but almost 
at once if worthy they bloom into eternal youth, for 



34 INSIGHT 

the garment only is old, the soul is still in its earliest 
infancy." 

What is the relation between moral and spiritual 
development? "There is a distinction in degree not 
in kind ; what the moral is to the material life, the 
spiritual is to the inner life." 

Can one be morally bad and spiritually good? "No; 
that is in a manner impossible for you must possess 
your lower nature before you can hope to possess your 
higher. As the greater must contain the less. First: 
that which is natural after that which is spiritual." 

Is there any such thing as chance or accident? 
"There is nothing but law in all the universe," 

What becomes of the personality when one, by sin, 
drives the spirit out of him? "The personality of man 
is spirit and spirit returns to its source. There is 
matter and there is spirit, that is, there are two gen- 
eral and great divisions and as matter returns to 
matter, spirit returns to spirit." 

What is the meaning of "Whereas in Adam all men 
died so in Christ shall he, etc."? "It means just what 
is written. In Christ was introduced a new element 
into humanity — spiritual life — and by partaking of 
it all men may become part of him and through him 
of God. Adam was the representative of human life ; 
Christ is the representative of spiritual life, and human- 
ity embraces all who have ever lived or ever will live 
on your earth." 

Were not people saved before Christ came into the 
world? "They were saved because Christ represented 
them as part of humanity." 

How did those who lived before he came, know any- 



INSIGHT 35 

thing of him? "Christ was always, and you are thinking 
of his manifestation. They accepted the light that 
was given them. You must not forget that this Divine 
love always existed. He came in a natural form but 
he said himself, Blessed are those who not having seen, 
yet have accepted him." 

How can we cultivate will power? "It is always well 
to cultivate will power but that can only govern things 
material and you must have yourself in subjection be- 
fore your spiritual vision is opened. A spirit at my 
side says : 'One of the sayings of Buddha was that to 
feed a poor and worthy man was better than to have 
visions and thoughts of heaven,' and Christ said, 'Not 
every one who saith Lord, Lord, but he that doeth the 
will of the Father.' " 

Could we ever succeed in getting a sight of you by 
any power? "I do not think it possible nor do I see 
that it would be of any spiritual importance but only 
to gratify curiosity." 

We all have a grateful regard for you. "You can 
show that in another and better way by coming nearer 
to me in your life. I am helping you through your 
perceptions, why should you wish to hear music through 
your eyes when your ears are the appointed channel. 
You think you are not curious but that is the state of 
your mind that makes you wish to go beyond what you 
are ready for, as a child wishes to know the secrets of 
his father." 

Will you ever come to us when we are separated? 
"Yes ; if any three of you are together I think you will 
be strong enough." 

Is it better for our spiritual development to give up 



W INSIGHT 

amusements? "Keep everything in its proper place, all 
things are good but all things are not of equal im- 
portance. The great thing is your spiritual growth, 
if you find anything however pleasant makes you less 
spiritual, that is not good for you. I have given you 
some great truths and you must use them with discre- 
tion." 

COMMUNICATION V. 

INSIGHT: "Let not yourselves be troubled; you 
come for comfort today as well as for improvement." 

What society does F belong to? "He is 

part of the will power of the Perfect Man and there 
is also another of your family who is with him, the 
name is Energy." 

Does one ever change his society? "Sometimes but 
not often. You change your position in your own 
society more frequently. Understanding is sometimes 
engrossed with lower things, sometimes with higher. 
Do you not see how the whole society must grow or 
how all may improve by the improvement of a part, as 
in natural things." 

Did you hear my conversation with Courage, yes^ 
terday? "I did not; I only hear as I have explained 
through Endurance." 

I hoped you could impress me? "I can impress you 
particularly but it is not through your natural senses, 
as I am not in any connection with them ; perhaps it is 
through your angel who is always with you. I have 
not been with you since we last met together." 

How will it be when Endurance is not with us? 



INSIGHT 37 

"You will then be impressed by me entirely through 
your inner consciousness and I think then you will 
know that it is 'INSIGHT' who is giving the light." 

We have been requested to ask you the following 
questions. Will you explain the laws by which this 
communication is possible? "I have given you much 
on this subject, the law. I cannot explain any more 
than 'Discretion' could explain the law of gravitation. 
He knows certain things happen in accordance with 
that law but he knows nothing of its origin or place 
in the sequence of events, and the condition of spirit- 
ual law is as obscure to me as the laws of physical 
life to the closest observers who only see effects." 

Why is it that all who are devout and sincere in the 
pursuit of the truth have not the same opportunities 
for getting it? "You cannot always judge of oppor- 
tunities and there is another thing to be said on that 
subject; Truth must come to each soul in a natural 
order and those who seem not to have your chances 
to obtain the truth are really in as good a situation 
to get what they need and can digest." 

Christ says that he gave to man the power to do all 
that he did. How can man get this power and what is 
it? "The power comes in proportion as the Christ 
life is developed in the human soul; it will take many 
ages before the whole of humanity is worthy of what 
they will attain in the end. The power to which I 
think you refer is that which Christ exercised over the 
laws of the physical world. 

What becomes of each individuality between the 
close of one objective life and the beginning of 
another? "A good man goes as I have explained into 



88 INSIGHT 

the world nearest yours to be unclothed of what still 
remains of his earthly garments ; then, after full prep- 
aration into heaven or a state of repose at first and 
afterwards of active improvement and advancement. 
There is between each of these births a state of rest 
or unconsciousness as there must be preceding all 
births." 

Do the deeds done in one's life determine in any way 
the state or condition in which the individual is reborn 
or reincarnated in this world? "The deeds of your 
present life are in a measure eternal and determine 
almost entirely your state in your next subjective life." 

Do they also affect our next objective life? "Yes; 
very much, they affect and influence your life both on 
earth and in heaven." 

Is it possible for one in heaven to know what is trans- 
piring on earth? "Unless it is given for some special 
purpose it is not possible where I am, but in a higher 
heaven every thing is known, there is no here, no 
there, no past, no future, and as Christ said, 'In that 
state there is joy over every return of the soul heaven- 
ward.' " 

Is one conscious in heaven of previous incarnations? 
"In the spiritual world after the new birth from your 
sphere the soul is often given an insight into all prev- 
ious lives, in order that it may understand how much it 
has grown since its last incarnation, but this knowl- 
edge is not carried by it into its happy state for 
nothing evil enters there even in thought or memory." 

Is there a world of desires or passions of unsatisfied 
earthly cravings? "There is and in that world many 
souls linger and refuse to be unclothed, for freedom is 



INSIGHT 39 

never taken from the soul and in every state she does 
what seems to her good." 

Is there a world of shadows having form and objec- 
tivity? "This is the world of which I have just spoken 
and it is with this world that communication is most 
easily obtained, but I have taken care that its evils 
do not come near you." 

Does evil finally become extinct or are there persons 
so evil that they survive? "In the end all things are 
good, for evil is only contrary to good, which is God, 
and He will in the end bring all creation back to him- 
self." 

Do souls, if evil, descend into brutes? "A human 
soul never becomes anything lower for that would be 
contrary to God's law which is : To bring things up 
through infinite gradations to Himself." 

Does Christ come into the human soul at some one 
moment, or by degrees? "In the human soul at birth 
is implanted the seed of the spiritual soul which must 
be cultivated by man's will power ; therefore the Christ 
life is a growth like all growth. Nature and the spirit 
follow similar laws. In some souls the growth is sud- 
den, in some it is very gradual for each soul is a law 
unto itself." 

Can intensely evil souls die and perish? "God is 
patience in its highest form' and there never yet (in 
the worlds to which we belong) has been an instance of 
this annihilation, but in older parts of the universe I 
am taught this has been the case." 

What do you mean by older parts of the universe? 
"Do you not see by looking in the heavens what a speck 
our little system is. It is also a comparatively new 



4*0 INSIGHT 

one and there are other systems which have existed 
millions of ages before we began." 

Did you come to us because we asked for a teacher? 
"I have already told you that when I first came it was 
given me to foresee these meetings and I was sent, I 
did not ask the why." 

Were you sent to us by any one who is living, an 
adept for instance? "I received my orders from a 
higher source than myself and I do not catch your 
meaning by the words you use." 

Could it be one yet living on this earth who influenced 
these communications ? "I think it might be but in this 
case it was not. It was from the desire of one you 
have known. The order I received was not from your 
friend but was in accordance with her desire." 

Will you tell us her name? "I do not know earth 
names." 

Her heavenly name then? "I am told not to say." 
Does she belong to our society? "Your friend belongs 
to a higher society than we do though she is still be- 
low me, she belongs to the force that lies behind and 
above the understanding and which presents the truth 
to the understanding; we call it Representation. She 
desires you should know the real truth and not learn 
it after you come into the spiritual world." 

Tell us something of Discernment? "Discernment 
is on the way to great things ; do you not see her name 
implies the application of common sense to spiritual 
things. Aspiration is also from her own inner life and 
from the pressure of her outer life being moulded into 
a beautiful form." 

What will Courage develop into later on? "Courage 



INSIGHT 41 

will soon be Victory. Endurance which implies 
patience and self-control must still bear her name. 
Discernment may ripen into Revelation, Investigation 
may become spiritual insight, or it may become the 
reverse. It depends on the path he seeks." 

Are the guardian angels informing spirits? "They 
do not inform in the sense of constraining but they 
present the truth and leave it to your free will to take 
it or not. As soon as you are found worthy truth is 
brought to you, you remember, even Christ himself 
could not perform his works because of their unbelief." 

Have you a message for F ? "He is always 

thought of by you, and I through you feel his power. 
He is a great and good spirit and many in all three 
worlds know him." 

Have you anything especial to say to> us? "Your 
questions have brought to you great truths and such 
things as come in answer to desires and seekings are 
always the strongest and best." 

What is the meaning of the words damnation and 
hell fire as used by Jesus? "Those are figurative and 
were addressed to the habit of thought of the people 
to whom he spoke." 

Where did Christ spend his life between his boyhood 
and the time he began to teach? "He was in his 
mother's home all his boyhood and early manhood fol- 
lowing the occupation and life, outwardly, of a Jewish 
peasant, but his soul, or his real self was in perfect 
union and communion with the Eternal Wisdom whose 
manifestation he was." 

Then he was not educated by the Essene brothers? 
"He was outwardly a man of no education, all that he 



42 INSIGHT 

gave to humanity he brought direct from the Father 
and the sect of whom you think knew nothing of him 
until long after." 

Many think that Christ as a man never existed? 
Many think it better to worship him as a principle? 
"It is well to believe truth, even historic truth, and 
Jesus the man did live but worship must never be given 
to the man only to the God that he showed to man- 
kind." 

(Mental) Cannot spiritual and physical advance- 
ment be obtained through study of Occult laws? 
"There are undeveloped powers, both spiritual and 
physical in humanity, of which mankind has never 
dreamed, and all, work into the mystery of God's uni- 
verse and are considered good and I am told to say to 
Investigation : Go and seek truth your own way." 

Will you also answer a mental question for Discern- 
ment? "Her angel does not speak to me and I do not 
see. Discernment can work out answers to her own 
questions if she will give herself to it, and that is one 
reason I am not to answer. I shall now be obliged to 
dismiss you. I go again on a mission as I did when 
you first came to me, and I shall not be within your 
sphere for some days." 

To what sphere do you go? "I go where I am to 
learn great things ; into the Spiritual world of a much 
older and higher form of life than we have experi- 
enced." 

How do you go to this place? "Perhaps I should 
have told you to say state instead of place, I go as 
you come to me." 



INSIGHT 43 

Will you not say some last words to us? "Keep 
that you already have and let your ten talents grow." 

Will you not let us come to you again before we all 
separate? "Perhaps before you go I may return; try 
me at your last moment. You will see me often here 
for you will come to me and as I have said, I shall 
always be ready and anxious to assist you." 

COMMUNICATION VI. 

What is magnetism? "It is will force which can be 
communicated under certain conditions. Spiritual will 
force; you Discernment, can help any who are in need 
of your peculiar force or strength. I think you can 
often be of great service and it is always worthy the 
effort." 

How could one increase his will power? "Spiritual 
force can only be increased by keeping the connection 
always open with the great fountain of spiritual 
force. It depends on the state of your mind, or rather, 
on the state of your spiritual soul and you must watch 
and see that you yourself grow." 

Is it entirely independent of the body? "Not inde- 
pendent for the body is the medium through and into 
which it flows. Health always seems to be of the body, 
but many kinds of disease originate in spiritual weak- 
nesses." 

Is doubt one form? "Doubt is one form but there 
are many, the most usual is perfect indifference." 

How can one conquer doubt? "I have pointed out 
the only true way and if you will follow it with under- 



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standing, doubt will vanish in the true light, for doubt 
is darkness." 

We thought you might still be absent at the place 
to which you said you were going? "No; you must 
remember always that what you call place with us is 
state and my new wisdom has not put me out of accord 
with your desires, for they differ not in kind only in 
degree." 

Do evil thoughts that we do not encourage injure 
us? "Not if you resist them, and you will find that 
each time the thought will have less and less power if 
you will resist with all your force." 

Is there any way by which we can resist evil success- 
fully? "Yes; by keeping in the Christ way. Evil 
is like darkness, perfectly negative, and goodness and 
light can always dissipate both the one and the other. 
Evil is the absence of good and nothing of itself." 

Are there many in the world who are so evil that they 
would injure us if they could? "There are many, 
many such, but if you carry only a lighted taper into 
an immense cathedral darkness disappears." 

One has so few chances of doing good; are oppor- 
tunities given us as a reward? "The first proposition 
is not just the truth; there are always opportunities. 
You remember, 'Only a drink of cold water,' in the right 
spirit, was spoken of and if you can make the simple 
acts of life means to your growth, you will find no lack 
of opportunities. You can give a kind word, or even 
a sympathetic look is sometimes more than a meal to 
the hungry. Your condition in life is the result of 
much good in your character, and you must not abuse, 
but use your gifts." 



INSIGHT 45 

Have Investigation's late studies been in the right 
direction? "Don't let them be onesided, your next step 
and next name, should be Reflection and from that you 
will go on to Enlightenment if you really are investi- 
gating all sides." 

The Christ side as well as the phenomena of 
occultism? "You have not put the case strong- 
ly enough ; as in the physical life, an insight into the in- 
sect world would not help you to good, so your present 
pursuit will not really help your spiritual growth." 

But did you not tell Investigation to go on and seek 
truth in his own way? "Yes ; you must be free and as 
you then strongly desired that insight, I thought it 
best, but can you not see that you must not neglect 
entirely the other." 

Do they have seasons of rest in heaven correspond- 
ing with our night ? "Yes ; there are nights without 
darkness in which souls and spirits take their rest, for 
none but the All Powerful can live always in the same 
state." 

What is the best time for prayer? "There is no 
time in such communion, in those things you get rid of 
time as we do and the state is all." 

Is it better to pray alone? "Not if you are in per- 
fect sympathy with companions for there is strength 
in such companionship." 

Do you pray in heaven? "All acts in heaven are 
prayers, as all your acts may be on earth if done from 
the right motive." 

It is difficult always to do right on account of the 
way others act and react upon us? "Yes; but if you 
are strong no other act can affect you. Everything 



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the most simple can be a prayer and nothing that your 
bodily desires prompt is sin if done in the right spirit." 

Do our guardian angels know our thoughts ? "They 
know what is thought unless it is very sinful; you can 
drive them far from you, if you refuse their compan- 
ionship, if you rise above them as you can do when you 
reach God, they stand outside in humble adoration of 
the same Father." 

Are they not in advance of us? "No; you are as 
capable as they and may rise above them by some act 
of devotion or usefulness." 

Have they ever been human beings ? "On this earth 
or some other, that is, they have passed into their 
present state from some other, but they have all been 
tempted and understand your temptations." 

May we appeal to them for help? "Yes; but there 
is no occasion to go to them, you can get help from the 
same fountain from which they bring their supply; 
no one can come between the soul, which is God, and 
God." 

Would it be possible for us to arrive at a state when 
we could see your form? "If it were necessary to 
your development you would be given the power to see 
into the highest heaven and find yourself face to face 
with Christ the Lord thereof." 

You said we were not worthy to have your knowl- 
edge. Will we ever attain that state on earth? "It is 
possible, but not probable, for it will require great 
progress. Wisdom is not of any place. God gives it 
forth always in abundance and each soul takes its fill 
and as it grows gets a larger measure." 

In the midst of business cares is one not apt to re- 



INSIGHT 47 

trograde? "No; perhaps you are progressing, for a 
child does not know when it grows, and so in spiritual 
things, duties are the soul's food and business if right, 
will not prevent your progress." 

Should we carry spiritual thoughts into the world 
with us? "It is well to think of the best always and 
thus carry around you a preventive to evil. Do not 
be in a hurry; growth is always slow. You feel that 
you must get it all at once but that is not God's way 
and you must wait for the seed to take root before you 
can expect fruit. Examine yourselves, see what is 
your greatest weakness, try to conquer it, then begin 
on something else and little by little before you know 
it you will find yourselves new beings." 

Is it a weakness to love one's home and belongings? 
"Not at all, it is a virtue. Earth has its duties as 
heaven has and you must act well in each place in 
order to get what was intended for you. There is 
much nonsense upon some subjects among those who 
are seeking to win heaven by their own devices. The 
family is the highest thing on earth and the relations 
of husband and wife, father and child, are the nearest 
approach possible to God and His creative love. I had 
all these beautiful truths to learn for I had been 
taught, the only way to win God's approval was to 
deny myself all the instincts He had implanted in my 
nature and by which I was to grow in His appointed 
way." 

Is it a sin to mourn for those who are taken from 
us? "What is so natural cannot be wrong. Love, or 
any development of its power is never wrong. Is it 
not written, if you do not love your fellow whom you 



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have seen, how can you love what you have not seen." 
Is it wrong to try to keep our friends from dying 
by will power ? "No ; it is not wrong to wish to keep 
those you love but you must submit to God's will for 
that is or should be your highest aim, to bring your 
will into accord with His. Try to realize, there is no 
here, no there, and you will not feel there is any loss 
when those you love are called higher. Do not think 
you must submit to all the evil of life to be in accord 
with God. He does not will evil, but always good, 
therefore mankind is always right to fight disease and 
suffering of all kinds for these things are not in ac- 
cordance with God's will." 

Then asceticism is not a virtue to be cultivated? 
"Self control is necessary but not the useless denying 
oneself what has been provided to make life beautiful. 
What you can do without that your brother may have 
from your abundance is the very highest self-denial. 
The proper use of the blessings of life is a duty and do 
not think you can grow by selfishly denying yourself 
for your own good and not for the good of another." 
What is the principle of the mind cure? "It is a 
spiritual force or truth acting against disease or false- 
hood. I think you only need to keep yourself free 
from' what would interfere with your perfect faith. I 
have taught these friends always that truth that flows 
continuously from the divine, is the only force on your 
earth that can conquer its evils. About the cure as 
I have said health flows continuously from Ged and it 
is only that humanity has cut itself off from this 
fountain, that disease exists. The power to cure cuV 
ease exists in all who are open continually to this 



INSIGHT 49 

source and they can give of their superabundance to 
those who lack." 

Can all disease be cured in this way? "All disease 
can be overcome if there is health tissue in the sick 
person enough to build upon. Sometimes this does 
not exist and then the body must die." 

Are there not incurable diseases, consumption for 
example? "It is not in accordance with God's law 
that diseases should be incurable. Sin has brought 
this curse upon the earth and by sin I mean breaking 
of law. The disease you speak of is caused some- 
times by inheritance but almost always on the earth 
now by not living in accordance with law. Old age 
might be a peaceful going into another birth, you call 
it death, but it must and would be painless." 

What interferes with perfect faith? "All things 
that pertain only to self; material things are not 
wrong in themselves if they are not made use of en- 
tirely for your own pleasure, but selfishness is the one 
evil hardest to eradicate. This to you all; if you can 
love your brother as yourself, you can heal." 

Has N — a special name because he is further 

advanced than other young persons of his age? "His 
nature is very spiritual though it is quite undeveloped." 

How can one help it if he is born with a nature less 
spiritual than another? "Every man according to his 
measure, to one, one talent, to another ten, but each 
must render an account for what has been given him." 

How can lack of spiritual gifts be made up to us? 
"Each will be full to his capacity. Your present state 
is the result of good or ill doing." 



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In this world or before? "Both with Expectancy 
and Searcher the result of a former life." 

Can you give us any information about the former 

life of S 's grandchild born today? "Such 

things are not best, but the child you mean comes with 
good instincts, this I learn from your angel who knows. 
Her former life was in quite a different form of civil- 
ization. I have told Resolution this because mother 
love is so holy with us as always to bring response ; she 
comes from a high form of happiness, but she returns 
to earth of her own volition, because she sees it best for 
her in the end." 

Does a soul ever incarnate in a different sex? "Sex 
is eternal." 

What are your occupations in heaven? "I have 
told you my life is almost constant activity. I am 
always: doing the will of the Father." 

Will you tell us of the knowledge you have gained 
in a higher sphere? "I cannot teach you what you 
cannot understand. I am trying now to convey to you 
what I learned but you cannot receive it yet. I went 
as I said into another part of the universe where the 
light of the truth was dazzling even to the eyes of 
those who were admitted to receive it, and I would gladly 
give it to you if I could." 

Can you give us any idea of it? "Will each of you 
put into words your idea of God? It is only through 
God's manifestation of Himself that any idea can be 
formed of Him for it is impossible for human thought 
to conceive of what has never been seen and as man 
can only worship his idea of God, it is of the utmost 
importance that the idea should be correct. Christ 



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said), 'I am the way, the truth and the life,' and he 
is the idea of God that has been given for you. Do not 
confound this idea which is the nearest you can have 
of God with God himself, but follow it and you will 
gradually approach nearer and 1 nearer to the great 
and only Father. Christ was either the greatest im- 
poster, or what he claimed to be, the Divine Son of 
God, and his spirit, which he promised to his disciples, 
is the present manifestation of God in your world. 
To every believer in Christ comes the spirit of Christ 
which teaches him of the heavenly things and makes 
all that Christ taught plain, but it can only come 
through Christ and is what he called the new birth. 
The Holy Ghost is what it has been named but we in 
heaven call the divine spirit within us the spirit of 
Christ." 

As time and space are self -limiting are they therefore 
not eternal and infinite? "Time and space as you under- 
stand them do not really exist. They are both sensa- 
tion and without sensation could not exist either in your 
world or in ours. Space depends on the relation of 
things and things depend on your sensation regarding 
them. In the finite mind there will always be space but 
we are taught that the eternal mind 1 has no idea of 
space because there is no here, no there, with God 1 , to 
whom all things are present." 

Is the influence behind these communications a human 
one? "It is a living human influence, for the inhabi- 
tants of heaven do not cease to be human, but add to 
their humanity another and higher nature, so in one 
sense it is a human influence. I see the thought in your 
mind but it is not a true one. The influences that 



52 INSIGHT 

brought about these writing's proceeded altogether 
from spiritual spheres." 

F. . . wishes to send his regards to "INSIGHT." 
"I am happy to receive them for his spirit is a very 
advanced one and his life shows how pure unselfishness 
can make the spirit even in material life to grow and 
expand as if it were in heaven. This is intended for 
Investigation who is concerned about his material 
duties and his spiritual growth." 

Will you explain to Investigation your last message 
to him? "As I said, he was specially anxious to keep 
himself free from material things but that would not 
help him. The life he is now leading is the one best 
fitted for his growth if he lives it well and he must 
accept it with all its duties. I mean his present life 
in all its various relations of husband, father, neigh- 
bor, and the duties of those relations are what will 
perfect him. Those who touch life at the most points 
are the most blessed." 

Does not growth in spiritual things bring occult 
knowledge? The things are on entirely different 
planes, one is essential the other is an intellectual 
amusement. It will not in your case for the world you 
wish to enter is composed 1 of beings who can teach you 
nothing and all they tell you is derived and useless." 

How were the miracles of Christ performed? "That 
question was raised even in Christ's day and he was 
accused of casting out devils by the help of devils, but 
he denied the charge and because of their want of faith 
did not reply to their questions concerning his power. 
His acts were all in accordance with law and were not 
supernatural, and the power proceeded from himself by 



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whom the worlds were made. Study them by all means 
but do not suppose you can learn them through your 
intelligence. All power must come to you in the ap- 
pointed way and you have been told the way. I do not 
see exactly how you expect to obtain spiritual power 
through your present effort." 

Have not the adepts such power? For example, they 
project their astral bodies to a distance. "Do you call 
that spiritual power? It is purely material. It does 
not come from growth in spiritual things, but there 
are certain physical conditions that may cause such 
manifestations. They are of no spiritual value and are 
after all only curious." 

Was it by the purity of Christ's spirit that he per- 
formed his miracles? "He performed them because 
the same manifestation of the Godhead that was visible 
in Christ was the power that made the universe, and as 
the greater contains the less he who had made all could 
make the fragments." 

Did Christ give his disciples occult power to perform 
miracles? "He gave them unusual power which they 
used on various occasions. When the necessity for con- 
vincing men through their senses was removed, this 
power was no longer given to the followers of Christ." 

Can one attain to the power of Christ and his disciples 
in this world? "Not in this life for humanity is not 
ready to have such power given to it." 

Does spiritual advancement through Christ help us 
to avoid further incarnations? "Yes: that is the only 
way to perfect your humanity. He was given as the 
pattern man and the nearer you approach his standard 
the sooner will your probation end; man returns to 



54 INSIGHT 

earth because he sees that to be the shortest road; to 
attain perfection!. 

Then we return to earth again and again? "Yes, to 
this earth you now inhabit or some other material ob- 
jective life." 

Why is re-incarnation necessary? "There is a great 
deal of rest given to those who are worthy of it and 
the soul lives its real life in many, many years of this 
rest, but then, feeling that some other experiences are 
necessary, the soul returns of its own accord and per- 
fects itself further. You pass into the heaven you 
have made yourself worthy of while on earth, but it is 
impossible that the short life given to man on earth 
could fit him for the highest heaven where God will 
finally unite Himself with a redeemed humanity of 
which each human soul is a part." 

By what process do souls come to desire re-incarna- 
tion? "I do not know, I have not arrived at that state 
myself and the recollection of former incarnations is 
not permitted to enter heaven. We leave all such 
things in the spiritual world." 

Many ob j ect to the idea of re-incarnation ? "It is not 
at first a pleasant thought, but God's will is the right 
will, and the nearer you can bring yourself in accord 
with him the happier you will be. Faith will come to 
you in the right time. Christ said to his disciples, 'I 
will send my spirit and it will teach you all truth, 
you are not ready for it now but it will come to you.' 
I give the spirit of many of his sayings, not his exact 
words for words are of no importance, the spirit is all. 
Christ's effort was to teach men one good life and until 



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that was accomplished he did not wish to burden them 
with too much." 

In a future existence shall we be with those we have 
loved on earth ? "You are together on earth for seventy 
or one hundred years, here where you will be after 
death, you will be together if you are in accord many 
hundred years and you will feel all is as it should be." 

Is it selfish for each to struggle for his own perfec- 
tion? "Not if you follow Christ, for then each one is 
struggling for the good of the many and all that ele- 
vates humanity as a whole, elevates each soul that com- 
poses it." 

Will you not come to us again soon ? "I am always 
ready to receive you but you must come for informa- 
tion," 

Can you tell us if we are advancing in the study of 
spiritual knowledge? "There is no standing still, there 
is either progress or the reverse. The law that governs 
such things is the same that pertains to physical things ; 
progress means life." 

Do we necessarily progress, after once beginning to 
grow? "There is an ebb and flood in all things." 

Can a man be born again in this life? "Yes, the 
perfect giving up of man's will to God's will is what 
Christ meant by being born again." 

Is it possible to retrograde after the new birth? 
"Does not a child after being born have seasons of 
illness?" 

Does being born again denote any one specific act? 
"More a state than an act and there must be a moment 
when all things have a beginning." 

Is rebirth the same as regeneration? "All birth is 



56 INSIGHT 

the beginning of regeneration. It begins the life that 
is to grow to all eternity ; you cannot expect the greater, 
and more important part of you to> attain manhood 
in a shorter time than that which is merely temporal 
and soon to pass away." 

Is the outward form of baptism necessary? "No 
form or intervention of any kind is essential between 
any soul and God; form is only necessary when the 
human mind cannot perceive spiritual things without 
some clothing or expression." 

Is there any foundation for the Church's claim to 
apostolic succession? "The church of Christ has an 
unbroken connection with its great founder, but it is 
a purely spiritual one, not a historical one." 

Then there is nothing in the laying on of hands? 
"It depends on the condition of the one who receives 
the hands of the good men who preceded him in the 
faith. Forms have always been essential to most minds, 
but blessed are those who can receive without the evi- 
dence of their senses." 

Was the virgin Mary without sin as she was chosen 
to be the mother of Christ? "No: that is a belief of 
these late days and we have no warrant for any such 
thing, but she was born into her place in history for 
that purpose and had passed through many experiences 
fitting her for that holy place." 

Why do we not hear more of her historically all 
through Christ's life? "Christ, as I have said, does 
not desire to be known and received of men in that way 
and he has taken pains that nothing should endure of 
him or his family." 

Then it is not true that Christ will grant prayers 



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through her intercession? "Do you think Christ has 
changed since he was on earth ; even then he denied his 
mother and his brethren, and said, the least who ac- 
cepted him was nearer to him than they. He wished 
only to be revered for his spiritual power and after he 
was a public benefactor and Saviour, he did not wish to 
be trammelled with mere earthly relations." 

Is it not right to love one's family? "Without doubt 
that is one's first physical duty, but spiritual duties 
must always be the first consideration." 

Who informed the wise men of the place where Jesus 
should be born? "Spirits of the lower heaven who were 
instructed to spread this great news." 

What is the lower heaven? "The first heavenly state 
into which souls go after leaving the spiritual world." 

How many heavens are there? "There are many 
states or what you would call places, as many as there 
are conditions of mind, which are infinite." 

Why did the spirits of the lower heaven carry this 
news? "The only reason is that all things come in a 
channel, and these spirits were nearest to these good 
men on earth who were worthy to know of the birth of 
this manifestation of the God whom they worshipped 
without understanding." 

Are there many members of the heavenly societies? 
"More than you could number and every spirit that is 
born into any member of humanity belongs to some soci- 
ety, but it may take many ages to make them worthy 
to enter into it. You were all born into this society, but 
I have not said that you were all recognized members of 
it." 

Does N. belong to the understanding? 



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"Searcher does not ; his place is yet undefined to my 
vision but he has his place and I am only permitted to 
see the possible members of the society of which I am a 
member." 

If spiritual improvement goes on indefinitely in 
heaven why is re-incarnation necessary? "Because 
there are some kinds of improvement that can only go 
on in the earthly state and then each soul has its expia- 
tion to accomplish which can only be done in a physical 
body when on your earth or some other." 

If all the evil in us can be eliminated in the state which 
follows death is that which is subsequently incarnated 
absolutely pure ; and if so, why should it seek re-incar- 
nation? "No entirely pure spirit is ever re-incarnated, 
and those who may appear nearly pure are to them- 
selves, and above all to God in need of their new birth 
into material things." 

If you are unclothed of evil are you not pure in 
heaven? "By unclothing is meant that you leave be- 
hind the desires and passions which make up your earth- 
ly form, but you take with you much ignorance and many 
false ideas of things." 

Will families be together in heaven? "If they are 
spiritually related they will. Families are not always 
desirous of being together on earth ; many things, pride, 
public opinion, etc. keep persons in families!, but these 
things are the falsities which are left behind when you 
are unclothed and see yourselves and are seen by others 
as you really are." 

How is it in the case of parents and children ? "The 
same law governs them and though you may rebel 
against this thought when the separation takes place it 



INSIGHT 59 

will be by your own volition and because you could not 
do otherwise." 

What did Christ mean when he said "Let the dead 
bury the dead?" "He was speaking to the Jews who 
represented a dead religion, one from which all spiritual 
life had departed and he meant, let those to whom such 
a faith was sufficient remain where they were but let 
those who thirsted for better things follow him." 

Will you explain the temptations' of Christ? "He 
was also man and as he represented redeemed humanity 
it was necessary he should reach that redemption 
through the same means by which man was to reach it. 
The first represented that which comes to mankind in its 
infancy, when it has only physical wants, you remember 
he was tempted to change a stone into bread to satisfy 
his hunger ; the second appealed to a higher part of the 
nature of man, his desire for dominion ; he was prom- 
ised all the kingdoms of the earth; and the last to his 
spiritual nature, that isi, he was tempted to worship a 
god of his own creation." 

Did Christ suffer physical pain when on the cross 
like an ordinary mortal? "Christ was, during his life 
on earth, a man in the highest sense, and as the more 
delicate the organization, the keener the pain, he suf- 
fered even more than an ordinary man." 

How could Christ suppose he was forsaken? "He 
represented humanity, as in some cases man feels for- 
saken, it was necessary that Christ should experience 
every emotion of which humanity is capable to make the 
parallel perfect." 

Who was Satan? "Satan is the embodiment of evil. 



60 INSIGHT 

He is not a personality of himself but he has many in 
the universe who personify what he signifies." 

What was the rebellion in heaven? "That is a figure 
of speech used to represent the sin that was to come into 
the form of Christ's church; there can be no rebellion 
in the state we call heaven and when Christ said, he 
saw Satan fall from heaven, he meant in that state, 
sin, and the tendency to sin were overcome." 

Are the stars that we see inhabited? Many of what 
you call stars are inhabited but perhaps the bright ones 
you refer to are suns and are not ready yet for habi 
tation. Those that are inhabited are inhabited by 
beings like yourselves for God has made all that he has 
given part of Himself to, in your form and with your 
faculties." 

Is there any way by which I (Discernment), can 
reach you in thought when Endurance has left us ? "I 
think there may be if you keep yourself in sympathy 
with what I have taught you, you will have the con- 
sciousness given you, if I find it necessary; but I do 
not see that you need much more instruction for a time." 

Will you tell me what society C — C be- 
longs to and something of her? "As we shall not all be 
together again soon it is permitted me to give you such 
tidings but they are not of a spiritual nature. The one 
of whom you think is not of our society, but is, as I have 
told you, of another which lies behind the understand- 
ing. She has known of these communications and is 
willing to wait for the good she knows will result from 
them." 

Courage says she will have to leave us as she has a 
duty to perform so we must close this interview. "Duty 



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is the best reason and the sweetest farewell. We shall 
all meet again so this is only until you are worthy of 
higher knowledge." 

COMMUNICATION VII. 

Can we not see "Insight?" "I am here." 

Can you tell us anything of father? (Between the 
last writing and this one the "father" referred to had 
gone from his place among us.) "Succor, your grand- 
mother, who sent for me has seen him, he is in the spirit 
world; she is with him to welcome him; she was sent 
from her place in heaven for that purpose, for she has 
always been from his earliest boyhood an inspiration to 
him." 

Have you known of all the sorrow we have been pass- 
ing through in this parting? "Yes; through her I 
have been kept in personal contact with you all. I 
have been anxious to be with you in some way and 
sought some help and she was appointed, "Mary," as 
you call her; her name is Succor. She says she has 
a word for Onward; the dear one whom we both love, 
is so happy and so well in his new home and is anxious 
only about you and says you must be happy with your 
children as he is with those he finds on this side. This 
is only permitted under unusual pressure from many 
forces and our dear one does not know of it and it would 
not be well for him to be disturbed at present. I am 
so happy to be allowed to be the medium between you, 
for I am always thinking of you in your sorrow, with a 
mother's sympathy." 

Was this message from our grandmother or from 



62 INSIGHT 

Insight? "From your father's mother, and it has been 
given her as a great privilege. She has gone now to 
her happy work with her own, in the spirit world, where 
I do not wish you to be taken for you are not yet strong 
enough to resist the evils that are there. Endurance 
could not stand it in her present condition, and you 
know I have promised to guard her." 

Will you not try to tell us something about C 

C . "I will send and see if I can. Succor is here 

again and says she is in their circle in the spiritual 
world and she will carry any message for you." 

How can she be in the spiritual world. We were told 
she was in the heaven beneath the one "Insight" was 
in? "She is there my child as I am to meet your father 
and others to whom she has been sent. She is in the 
heaven which I also inhabit and as you, even with 
your limited means of communication go to those you 
love, much more is our desire gratified to be of use and 
comfort to those who come as little children into a 
strange and unknown land." 

Can you tell C C for us how grateful 

we are for these communications? "She knows it and 
says, you must follow more and more closely, the in- 
sight that has been given you. She sends her dearest 
love to Devotion and her children and thinks of you 
always and has been so happy to hear through the com- 
munication she has established with you that you have 
progressed in the only things that seem to her import- 
ant. It is not given to her at present to come to you 
herself, although we are in the same heaven, we are not 
in the same state of advancement ; I having had so much 
more time to improve." 



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Did father see his children when he first became con- 
scious after going to the spiritual world? "It was given 
him in his first hours of consciousness in the spiritual 
world to see all his children just as they had left him, 
and his mother, that is myself, came with them, and to- 
gether we welcomed him to our land; his children are 
very different in many ways but that pleasure so ardent- 
ly longed for is always accorded to good spirits by the 
dear Lord who understands all earthly longings." 

Was father conscious at the last moment of those 
about him? "He was, just at the last moment, conscious 
of friends of both worlds, he saw you all and also those 
on the other side." 

Were his spiritual eyes opened before he passed 
from earth? "They sometimes are. I have not heard 
in his case, but I have been told that when he met his 
friends here, he spoke to those he had left as if they had 
come with him and expressed surprise that they were no 

longer visible. He said, 'W , your mother is just 

here at my side and will be pleased to see you." 

Did he not know he had died? "He was conscious 
that he had come here but he could not divest himself 
of the thought that you were all still with him." 

Did he pass through a state of unconsciousness after 
death? "Not unconsciousness, for he had gone through 
that and it was to be spared him for he was worthy of 
such a boon." 

Does father believe in the possibility of these com- 
munications now? "He does believe for he asked the 
question when he found he had really left you and he 
was told that "Insight" whom he had known of, would 
keep you all, indeed, I always knew he believed in our 



64 INSIGHT 

intercourse but he thought he had no strength to give 
to me and I did not wish him in his last days to leave 
his duties for what so soon would be made clear to his 
mind." 

Did you then know he was about to die? "After he 
was ill I could see your thought of him and I knew he 
was to come to us through the good spirits who were 
waiting so eagerly to welcome him. The guardian 
angel always tells of the physical condition if it is 
necessary for any preparation to be made." 

Insight, do you know anything of the form you will 
occupy when re-incarnated? "I do not know, that will 
depend somewhat on the earth I am appointed to in- 
habit. I hope to go to another order of things and am 
striving for it but as God wills, I will." 

What do you mean by another order of things? 
"There are much older and more advanced objective 
and human states than in this system and sometimes 
souls escape returning to your earth." 

Do you wish to avoid Reincarnation? "No: I wish 
another incarnation but under different conditions. Do 
not, however, misunderstand me and think I am not 
willing to do the very, very best." 

Are guardian angels individuals ? "Yes ; to each 
new-born mortal such a guardian is appointed; without 
them there could be no connection at first with the spir- 
itual world and, after you no longer need them, they 
perform the same office for some other soul." 

Do they not lead a very negative and colorless exis- 
tence ? "You do not understand how pure spirits, such 
as they are, may be capable of living their own beauti- 
ful lives quite apart from the soul committed to their 



INSIGHT 65 

charge, as a mother can give care to her child and yet 
lead quite a personal existence independent of it." 

Do the guardian angels help us in any positive way? 
"They do you great good in many ways and help you 
by their spiritual influence, and it is exerted in the 
same way that good air will bring life to a sick body." 

Now we have to stop, will you come to us again? 
"Do not say 'will I come to you.' Get the situation 
clear in your mind of our relations to each other. I 
shall always be happy to instruct you, but you must 
come with high motives." 

COMMUNICATION VIII. 

INSIGHT: "I am expecting you. I have been with 
you since you last came to me, that is, I have kept up 
the communication. Through your very intimate rela- 
tion with the spiritual world it is very easy to do so. 
Your father being in both worlds equally, is the added 
link. He is still so much interested in the life he has 
left," 

Have you seen him? "I have not seen him, but I 
have seen those who are with him and through him they 
see you." 

Is father still resting? "He is resting as much as 
he will, but he is so curious to know the meanings of 
all the strange new things that surround him, and he 
still is so anxious about those he has left." 

Did he know what we did about his funeral, etc.? 
"No; he could not see that, nor has he cared for those 
things. What he cares for, is to tell you what he learns 
from time to time; but it will not be given him now to 



66 INSIGHT 

do so, for he must rest, and later he will not wish to 
do anything with his earth life." 

Would it be possible for grandmother to answer 
some of our questions? "Yes; she is here, ask what 
you wish to know ; she is not to give of her own accord." 

How could father meet his children as he remembered 
them? Had they not changed in all the years? "They 
were quite unlike what he conceived them to be, but 
it is a law of these worlds that we see what we desire 
and have the power given us to return to any former 
state that we may wish. Your father would not have 
known his children and they would have been nothing 
to him if this had not occurred." 

What is father's present form? "He is at present to 
his own consciousness, just as last he was in perfect 
health on earth. But in time he will return to the 
activity and vigor of a young man." 

Does he speak of us ? "Yes ; more than I wish he did, 
and therefore he does not know of your coming to me ; 
and he must not at present, for he must become as a 
little child here before he can commence his growth." 

Is he happy? "As happy as possible under this 
drawback, but you who know him must understand 
how the giving up will be difficult for him. It is not 
a clinging to any wrongdoing, but merely the clinging 
to the habits of many years." 

When father first came to you did he ask if this 
communication were possible? "Yes, when he saw it 
was not heaven which he expected he asked if it were 
possible his children had had communication with 'IN- 
SIGHT' in heaven. He was given to see that such 



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things were possible and he said he also had had a word 
with 'INSIGHT.' " 

Have you been able to look back over any past in- 
carnations ? "No ; I know nothing of that from my own 
experience but your father has spoken to me of it and 
'INSIGHT' says it is true." 

What did 'INSIGHT' tell you of it? "He told me 
it was not a matter for my present consideration." 

To what society do you belong? "I am of the hands 
and am always carrying out the will of the perfect 
man." 

Is C. C. with father? "Not now; she was with us at 
first because he desired it, but she has also her work 
and we do not often meet. This state has many more 
divisions than you have on earth and it is only when 
the same desire animates two spirits that they come into 
intercourse with each other. I first knew her when your 
brother came, for he desired us both and now I have 
met her again with your father." 

How does father live? "He lives in his own house, 
the house he has built for himself by his life on earth; 
and to our spiritual senses the things that surround 
us are as objective as anything you have around you 
and much more suitable, and they always accord with 
the emotions and desires of the moment." 

Is the passing from the spiritual world to heaven 
analogous to death? "Not to death; there is no such 
state here, but the soul is not conscious of a journey 
or a change of place, it goes without knowing it and 
that may be what you call death." 

To what society does Devotion belong? "To the 
heart, which in the perfect man sends all the rest of 



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the parts to their work and keeps the whole man in good 
and perfect readiness to do the part assigned to him." 

In what state are you, yourself? "I am with 'IN- 
SIGHT' who has allowed me to come where you now 
are ; my interior state is a heavenly one, but I am mostly 
in the spiritual world." 

Has father anyone in his house to minister to him? 
"He is surrounded by a band of spirits who are there 
to serve him, and his children come when he asks for 
them, and there are many new souls like himself who are 
seeking counsel of him and he is busy all the time and 
will not rest as he must and should." 

Does he never ask about those he has left? "He is 
told he must trust them to the good Father and he 
has not since the very first seemed to think they needed 
him." 

Will you tell us more of the house he occupies? "The 
spiritual senses and wants, are after the same order 
as the physical, but on another plane, and the houses 
are as real to those wants as your houses are to you. 
I cannot describe them so that you can understand, 
there are what you would call rooms, but which are 
really states, and furniture and all that you can con- 
ceive of for comfort and convenience. In the higher 
states everything is much handsomer than in the first 
state after death; all depends upon the interior con- 
dition of the spirit. For example: when a spirit goes 
from a higher into a lower condition it carries its sur- 
roundings with it ; of which those who are not in the 
same condition are not conscious." 

May we now ask Insight a few questions? "Your 
mother is gone and she is so happy to enjoy this com- 



INSIGHT 69 

munion. She tells me she suffered much at leaving her 
children and her reward is to be with them. She is a 
perfectly beautiful spirit." 

At what stage of the soul's progress is it informed 
of the spirit and does that necessarily make it immortal? 
"When the soul gets possession of itself the spirit enters 
in, and if the soul consciously and willingly receives it, 
it is rendered immortal." 

What is the meaning of the soul getting possession 
of itself? "When the soul comes into its freedom and 
forms its own conclusions then it is said to be worthy 
of this new birth. It depends on the individual and 
there is no fixed time; to some souls the growth is so 
perceptible that they know the very moment of its 
beginning but to the majority the growth is slow and 
imperceptible." 

After the birth of the spirit is the soul free from all 
sin? "The soul is always free to sin, but the spirit is 
not stained by such sin ; by the soul, I mean the human 
soul each child gets from its father. Some souls com- 
mence far onward as a reward for good lives ; others 
far backward and have a weary path to travel over and 
over again." 

Why did Jesus weep at the death of Lazarus when 
he knew he should see him so soon? "His tears were 
all out of sympathy for Lazarus when he was recalled 
from a spiritual world to an earthly state, and whose 
life was to be full of suffering and pain." 

Was the soul of Lazarus in the spiritual world while 
his body was in the grave? "He was there and was 
received as the beloved and intimate friend of Christ." 

When he returned to this life did he remember where 



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he had been? "When he heard the voice of Christ he 
followed it, as the servant follows the voice of his lord, 
and one look into his compassionate eyes made all things 
possible to him. Remember always the difference be- 
tween us and you is one of state and you will see how 
it was possible for him to forget his stay in that state. 
I am permitted to know that his spiritual eyes were 
often opened while he was in human life and he suffered 
all the horrors of martyrdom with heaven visible to 
him." 

Did he suffer martyrdom? "He was martyred for his 
belief in Christ. There is no record, but it is a subject 
in which I was always interested, as you seem to be, 
and it was given me to know of his second life on earth. 
This reincarnation was not difficult and was done in 
accordance with the law that governs such things and 
he was, for the purpose our Lord had at the time, re- 
incarnated into the same body." 

What does Paul mean in his epistle to the Romans 
VIII chapter, where he speaks of predestination and 
the Lord's elect? "He used the terms that could be 
understood by those to whom he was writing. There 
are, in fact, no elect as they or he understood it; but 
truth comes only as the soul of humanity is ready to 
receive it and he wrote for his time; he understood 
many things, but as he himself said, he saw through a 
glass, darkly, and that was one of his most indistinct 
visions." 

Does the growth of the spirit continue without our 
being conscious of it? "The spirit never rests, for 
spirit is God, and God is constant activity. You grow 
as the flowers do, without knowing when or how." 



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Will you not say some last word to us before we 
part today? "Let your lives be in accord with your 
knowledge. Look after little things and do not forget 
that time is only a piece of eternity in which you are 
living now and that with you, as with us, time is 
sensation and it rests with the will of each of you to 
make every sensation a part of a happy eternity." 

COMMUNICATION IX. 

Present: Endurance and Discernment. 

INSIGHT: "I am glad you are trustful enough to 
come, for the promise to two or three only needs faith 
for its fulfillment." 

Did you know of our conversation yesterday? "I 
know now what it was. I did not hear it then. Endur- 
ance doubts because it is her mental and spiritual con- 
stitution now to do so. The blessing that is promised 
to those who believe, not having seen, is not to be hers 
till farther on." 

Will I ever be able to believe? "It will come to you 
suddenly as all things have done to you — as a flower 
bursts into bloom when its hour has come, you will only 
spoil it by forcing the petals apart before all things 
are ready. Do not fear, for you are one of the Father's 
children to whom all things are possible." 

Can you tell me why these writings sometimes de- 
press me? "You have from them a keener insight into 
your own spiritual condition and the spirit suffers 
many things from hidden causes as the body does ; but 
the feeling with you is partly physical and results from 



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the antagonism you unconsciously feel towards some 
who form your circle. I mean the circle which furnishes 
your power to write, but you must endure that for the 
one you feel most is the one who needs you most." 

Can you not tell who it is? "Do you think it best 
to know?" 

I hope it is not I? "No; there is the greatest attrac- 
tion between us three. We are, though on different 
planes, of the same order of spirit and Discernment will 
know me some time as seemingly objective as she now 
knows Endurance." 

May we see grandmother today? "She is here." 

How did you come so soon when "INSIGHT" sent 
for you? "I can best make you understand by saying 
that I came as thought flies through space with you. 
You do not find it difficult to send your thoughts to 
the ends of your earth and with us going is some such 
process. Not exactly, of course, but as nearly as I 
can explain, I am not a wise spirit, only a loving one." 

Is it bad for you to come into our atmosphere? "It 
is not, for the dear Lord makes my special atmosphere 
to consist of that of all my children and a heavenly 
atmosphere has no here, no there, and if there is evil 
it appears to me only as summer clouds that make my 
sky dim for a moment, but which I willingly endure 
to be of use, being a loving spirit the sun is always 
shining for me, and I can endure many clouds for it is 
given me always to see the light of my Lord beyond." 

Have you made other friends than the ones you had 
on earth? "I have many friends, all the mother hearts 
are in perfect unison with mine. This plane of my 
soul development I am told is soon to end for those 



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whom I bore on earth are all here now and after your 
father needs me no longer, I am to learn other things." 

Will you tell us of father? "He is in the innermost 
and most peaceful part of his house taking the rest 
he needs. He cares nothing now at this moment for 
anything but the heavenly quiet that fills his soul with 
perfect peace and delight. He has passed through 
years of sensations and new feelings since he came and 
is becoming now as a little one only anxious to do the 
Father's will. What seems to you but a few short 
weeks seeims to him more than all his earth life and 
shuts it out entirely from his remembrance." 

Does he not think of us? "Not now; that is the rest 
of which I speak. It is necessary to put these earthly 
garments out of sight as you would soiled ones after 
a bath; at present he sees no one but the angel of the 
resurrection who is helping him to unclothe himself 
and I am not needed now that that supreme moment 
of rebirth has come." 

Can the new birth ever take place on this earth? 
"Not the kind of which I speak. The new birth in your 
world 'INSIGHT' will tell you of. The new birth in 
the spirit world is that of the soul out of the womb 
of its earthly appetites and longings and is not the one 
you are thinking of." 

Will father finally remember his earth life? "Yes; 
he will remember all, but the connecting cord, as in a 
natural birth, will be sundered and he will not be drawn 
toward his old longings and desires but will love them 
in an independent way, as a child loves a mother, of 
whom till his birth, he formed a part." 

Are you and C. C. friends? "We are more than 



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friends, but we do not often meet, as our chosen work 
lies apart, but I have sent now for word of her, she is 
in her heavenly house which is most beautiful; on its 
walls are pictures of her good deeds in brilliant and 
naming color and she has a large household of spirits 
who have not made for themselves homes and is the 
beautiful and beloved centre of a large and growing 
city which is being built up by her and by others of 
her kind, for the poorer ones who know not where to 
go when they first enter her sphere." 

Can you tell us of your home? "My home in full of 
the joy and laughter of little children and my rest is 
to hear their merry voices and receive their caresses ; 
I am to leave it soon but the good Father will send 
some other mother to them and I go as willingly as you 
ever did on a new and longed for journey for there are 
many new countries in our world and we are to see 
them all." 

Shall we be able to come to you when you have gone 
on? "I cannot tell if you can come. I lose nothing 
I am sure by acquiring more, and I shall always be 
glad to see my childrens' children. The Father's love 
keep us united in his great family, is my wish for each 
of you and for me, and for all whom we love both in 
the flesh and in the spirit." 

Will Insight tell us what doubt is? "Doubt is to faith 
as darkness to light. It is nothing in itself only the 
absence of something, as the sunniest landscape can 
be obscured by a dirty rag, so the light of faith, always 
in the spirit can be shut off by a mood of the mind or 
an infirmity of the flesh. Things and conditions have 
not changed since our Lord's parable and nothing, 



INSIGHT 75 

even though one came from the dead and stood beside 
you visible to your outer vision, would convince the 
mind, it must come from an interior perception of 
truth." 

Has my mind any influence over this' writing? (En- 
durance.) "Your mind colors it for it is the medium 
through which it is made material but that is all, the 
thought is not born in your brain and is not a part of 
it any more than truth is a part of any finite and 
created being except it be given by God. I and you 
are both channels for the divine that is in every re- 
generate soul, and as such we must believe in ourselves ; 
that belief will come to you suddenly as an inspiration, 
do not fear, you shall not suffer for the use the tender 
Father makes of you, for you are one of the little 
ones of his household." 

Had we better show this writing? "Use your own 
insight. Anything that can help another is not ours. 
You and Discernment are to be trusted with what has 
been given. I see how Discernment feels, she knows 
her own world and is wise in many ways and as I have 
said she can be trusted." 

Will it do to bring in other minds to our circle? 
"Bring not ! but ] et all come who will, all shall be wel- 
come." 

We thank you and love you for all your goodness to 
us. "Yes, you know not yet how much we are all to be 
to each." 

COMMUNICATION X. 

INSIGHT: I am 1 glad you come now, for I go soon 
where you could not reach me. 



76 INSIGHT 

Will you be there long? "It will depend on my re- 
ceptive state." 

Are you going to the same place you told us of 
once before? "Yes, to the same state where I meet 
one who will be 'INSIGHT' to me." 

Shall we not be able to see you again? "You will 
see me if you wish after my return to my present con- 
dition." 

How do you acquire knowledge and how do you pass 
your time? "I acquire knowledge, when I am in my 
best condition, from the spirits to whom I go soon. 
My time as you call it is made up of sensations of 
labor, of rest, of pleasant social enjoyment and of 
praise to the source of all these blessings." 

Then it is not wrong to seek knowledge from withr 
out? "It is not; knowledge comes from the great 
Father as light from the sun, but there are channels 
of which we all form part and although I am nearer 
the Source than you, I am still far away and many are 
able to be my teachers. The assimilation must be per- 
sonal; food does not become part of you as food until 
after it has been transmuted into your blood and tissues 
by your own appropriation of it. Your desire is from 
within and you reach after the divine, but as a plant 
must have the assistance of the air and moisture, so 
your divine spark must be helped to reach the central 
fire by others nearer its great light." 

What is the law by which you are enabled to see 
into our minds? "I only see through Endurance. It 
is by the spiritual connection I have formed with you 
under the favorable conditions of which I have told 
you. I only know myself that certain conditions will 



INSIGHT 77 

produce certain phenomena, but I do not know the laws 
which govern these conditions ; men with you who give 
all their thought to the study of natural law only know 
the results of certain combinations and cannot tell why 
they occur." 

Do you understand the laws that will govern your 
next incarnation? "I do in part; it will depend on 
certain attractions that are latent in my soul and of 
which I am not now conscious but of which both my 
former lives, spiritual and physical, have been the 
creators." 

Do you not carry with you the growth of your pres- 
ent life ? "Yes ; real growth must always have its 
effect but there is much in my life here as in your life 
on earth which belongs merely to what we may call 
the present and passing moment." 

Is the knowledge you acquire in your present ex- 
istence purely spiritual or is it also intellectual? "Both: 
but the spiritual knowledge will not be used actively in 
my objective lives for I shall not need it any more than 
a man would need his eyes were he living always in the 
dark." 

What becomes of the intellectual knowledge you are 
now acquiring? "That goes with me and determines 
my position in my next incarnation and I am endeavor- 
ing to acquire enough to enable me to go into another 
world than the one of my last incarnation." 

What becomes of the spiritual knowledge you ac- 
cumulate? "That is latent in the soul but the new 
body that is assumed shuts it out from its source and 
the soul must each time struggle out of its prison 



78 INSIGHT 

house: each time, however, the struggle is easier and 
easier and the light is less difficult to reach." 

Is there only a certain amount of spirit to each soul? 
"The spirit as part of the Divine is without limit, but 
it must reach of its own accord for each part of God 
is as free as God himself." 

Is it possible in this life to behold one's spirit? 
"When the spirit becomes free from matter it is con- 
scious of itself and there are moments when this free- 
dom becomes apparent even in its prison house; when 
the soul seeks for its source it is often as free for the 
moment as if there were no such thing as matter; for 
spirit has suffused it and it is no longer gross." 

How will matter finally return to its source and 
become spirit? "Matter will always exist if by matter 
you mean something objective to the Divine, for what 
God has created to love Him, and to be loved in return 
will always remain outside of the Divine or Beginning. 
The perfect man being outside of God will to Him be 
matter, that is, not being God it cannot be pure spirit 
and the name matter might be applied to it." 

Is God ceaseless activity? "God is all you can con- 
ceive and much more that you cannot understand. He 
is activity and rest, heaven with its peace, earth and 
all the worlds with their endless activities and unrest." 

Why did God being perfect need our love? "That 
is the question that the greatest of the archangels asks 
in his humility. What can God need of us? We can- 
not understand but we know that it must be for the 
good and happiness of the creations He has brought 
into existence by His will." 



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May we see grandmother today? Yes: — she has 
come." 

Have you not something you can tell us? "I can 
tell you of those in the spiritual world for I am just 
from my children there. Your father takes the rest 
now that he needs and in a secret chamber of his own 
house is being unclothed and thinks no longer of his old 
life, but only of the joys that are slowly dawning on 
his spiritual eyes, even I am not with him. The angel 
of the resurrection is there and assists him as his soul 
is not strong enough of itself till it has left the last 
of its earthly garments behind." 

Has he not made rapid progress? "Progress does 
not begin with the new birth. The soul must be borr 
out of its earthly state first and then growth begins 
Do not think I speak of his earthly body, that is a part 
of your world, but the soul has many garments and 
like a newborn infant must come into its new life." 

Have you see the mother of Acceptance? "I have 
seen her at your aunt's home which is filled continually 
with crowds who come to her for shelter and encourage- 
ment and I was told that she was dear to her and cared 
for by her in some ways, while the other received 
knowledge that she had not gained." 

Had not the mother of Acceptance gone to heaven? 
"She had, for your aunt's house, built and decorated 
with pictures of her good deeds, is in one of the heav- 
enly spheres." 

Do you see M. P. ? "I do not know her by that name 
for names with us depend on one's spiritual state and 
our adaptability to come within their sphere; when in 
the spiritual world I only see those to whom I am sent 



80 INSIGHT 

for that is one of the differences between us and you, 
when you do not wish to see it requires a conscious 
effort on your part but with us what we do not desire is 
for us impossible." 

Do our friends ever come to us here and help us? 
"Yes ; not necessarily those you have known but those 
who are more truly your friends than any earthly ties 
can make them." 

Resolution thinks it strange that those who have 
never known us should come to us? "They are not 
strangers but your very own. I have often come and 
with me has been your guardian angel, who> is beautiful 
in his manly strength and there are others who are known 
to me by their spirit names ; one is called Peace and 
she is always striving to have you rest in the knowledge 
of the eternal truths which are worth so much more than 
the fleeting and changing things of your earth. I 
have been allowed to keep with my own, for in my first 
ignorance of real ties, I demanded this as my greatest 
boon, but I am gladly waiting the hour when I go to 
other things. I tell you this to help you to know these 
truths." 

Do those who have gone before us need our prayers ? 
"Yes ; we all need the thought of each one in our 
Father's house. When there is perfect union between 
earth and heaven all wants will cease and we shall all 
be in one body. Do not think that always begging 
for yourself, even spiritual blessings is true prayer. 
True prayer is the putting of your will into abso- 
lute harmony with the Divine will and we are taught 
that even the most imperfect approach to this state is 
received by the good Father." 



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Insight, may we come to you again soon? "Come 
to me, if I am not here some one will receive you in my 
place. I do not wish you to be imposed on by any 
other who might take my name, so I will leave you in 
good spiritual hands." 

How can we thank you? "You can follow me and 
go before me even, if your spirit continually seeks the 
Divine, so thank the true giver who gives to us both 
according to our capacity to be filled. 

COMMUNICATION XI. 

INSIGHT: "You did not come during my absence. 
Tranquility was ready at any time to have received 
you. Tranquility is one of us, and the wise friend who 
was to keep you from any ill effects of your coming, 
for there are many dangers to the unprotected soul 
who strives to rise to higher things." 

Why cannot Discernment come into this communion 
with you as Endurance does? "She cannot bring her- 
self pure and alone. Her life is bound up with too 
many other lives, both physically and mentally. Her 
mother life is too strong for her to divest herself of 
the lives so nearly her own. It is better for her to be 
in their earth sphere. Her highest development lies 
there." 

Is the spiritual world about us here in this world? 
"The spiritual world encircles you as the greater circle 
encloses the less. If your spiritual eyes were opened 
you would see those who belong to your state as you 
now see those who belong to your family circle." 

Do wicked persons go to heaven? "Never as wicked 



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spirits. To the pure only is the sight of God 1 possible. 
By God 1 I mean the highest conception purity gives to 
each soul, of the All Good." 

Out of what prison had Liberation let his spirit? 
"The prison of denial; if you shut yourself in a dun- 
geon and say there is no sun another man's eyes can- 
not prove to you you are wrong; you must open your 
own door and look for yourself; your angel now often 
bears upon her radiant face the calmness of Reflection, 
but she longs for her name to be Action. You must 
come into personal relations on a spiritual plane with 
other souls by taking on yourself their daily needs as 
Discernment and Endurance do. The pattern man 
went about doing good; go and follow in his foot- 
steps and do not wait for duties to come to you." 

Solicitude wishes to know whether his guardian angel 
ever leaves him? "She never departs. You may shut 
her out as a cloud does the sun ; fear not, the cloud 
will disperse and all will be bright in the end for she is 
well pleased with your efforts, weak and fluctuating as 
they are." 

Is Searcher's guardian angel near you? "Yes, but 
she stands without." 

Does he interfere with this writing? "Not in any 
way. Let him touch Endurance and I can feel his plane 
of spiritual development. He is wholly undeveloped 
but is on a high plane, a very delicate and lovely one 
and his angel is coming gently towards me and is now 
by my side. Searcher is to be developed later on in 
another way, but we all welcome her and bid her God- 
speed in her beautiful and lovely task. She says there 
are wonderful latent capabilities in her charge and as 



INSIGHT 88 

soon as he is more his own master physically and men- 
tally her work is to begin." 

Why does the writing change and become so small? 
"She is so gentle and refined in her influence that it is 
showing itself even in the lowest form necessary to our 
communications." 

Searcher asks : Does my guardian angel ever speak 
to me? "She is always speaking to you in a still small 
voice, but she wishes me to tell you not to let the golden 
state we call growth, and you call hours, go by without 
filling them with your best aspirations. She is so happy 
to come through us to you all and says the states are 
not many to her vision, though to you they may seem 
long epochs of time before he begins to develop on his 
own plane." 

Is his plane different from ours? "In some re- 
spects, but planes intersect and run into each other and 
you all belong to the one great circle that has its ap- 
pointed work." 

What is that work? "Now to elevate and spiritualize 
yourselves, later to draw many other circles into your 
orbit and finally to become an independent world circling 
round the great and only Sun, Each soul is a world. 
A circle of souls is a system like your planetary one, 
and in the end they will be drawn together into a sun 
to lighten other planets." 

Does Searcher belong to our society? "Yes; to one 
portion of it, one that lies beyond ours, for when per- 
fectly developed he will present to us what we will 
grasp through other powers than those that have given 
them to him. It is the force that takes the thought 



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and gives it form. Do you not see that intellectually 
there is such a process?" 

Have you advanced us spiritually by your teach- 
ings? "There is great improvement in the spiritual 
condition of you all and when Reflection goes on all will 
follow. The best work is always organized work, so 
put your hand to any good work and you will see great 
results in your own growth. 

We look upon you as our master and will try to 
follow your teaching? "Do not call any man master. 
I am as you only a little nearer the great Source, but 
I thank you and I love you. We are one and nothing 
shall any more separate us but your own wills. Read 
often what I have given you, seek together from all good 
sources to kindle the great fire that united humanity 
will make and you will advance and grow even though 
you may know it not." 

We read and study daily what you have given us? 
"Yes, and Discernment follows what I have given but 
Reflection has not yet accepted things from their high- 
est standpoint and he must not be hurried. Tear not 
the petals, as you were told before, he has made great 
progress and there is joy among us who rejoice in his 
coming." 

What is the meaning of the spiritual name "Search- 
er?" "It means that the human soul is putting out its 
hands for some outlet from its prison house and strives 
to let in the light that it knows exists somewhere." 

Have you a regular organization in heaven? Have 
you made up your minds to help the world? "Yes ; 
there is nothing done without what you call organiza- 
tion which is only an idea or spirit put in motion with 



INSIGHT 85 

forms and parts which perform their different func- 
tions — but we have not 'made up our minds.' We are the 
willing channels for the divine and it is what you must 
be in order to become perfect even in your present stage 
of work and development." 

Do we ever change our guardian angels ? "You keep 
the same but they change as you do." 

Do we keep the same one through other incarnations ? 
"Sometimes ; it depends on their state and your needs." 

What becomes of them while we are in the subjective 
state? "They also have their periods of rest and re- 
pose." 

Do you call the place where you are heaven? "I 
mean by that idea the state of happiness, that is given 
to humanity as a reward; words are nothing, other's 
may have other names for the same idea. 

Do all souls speak the same language in the spirit 
world? "Yes; there is a universal language which is 
understood by all, but do not suppose I mean by that a 
language of arbitrary signs as those with you ; ours is 
another kind and speaks directly to the soul." 

Is the world worse or better than when you lived? 
"The world is better in many ways, but things are to 
grow quickly now for the plant so long germinating is 
reaching to the light and soon all men with their quick- 
ened intellectual perceptions will see it and become 
suddenly wiser and better." 

Have not the churches done a good work in spite of 
their narrowness? "The churches are now doing a 
great work, for they are keeping alive the moral sense 
and their organizations are to be respected and sup- 
ported and when this light is perceived by them they 



86 INSIGHT 

will be ready like a well-equipped army to fight dark- 
ness and error." 

May we see grandmother ? "Yes ; she is here !" 

Will she tell us of those we love? "The new born 
one is still where we cannot see him; the others are 
about their appointed work, some being led, some lead- 
ing." 

Can we ever converse with our guardian angels while 
we are on earth? "Do you not hold arguments with 
yours every day? She prompts you to good deeds, helps 
you to overcome evil thoughts and fights many a battle 
for you with bad and wicked spirits." 

Shall we ever see them face to face? "Yes; when 
you first go into a spiritual state your eyes will be 
opened and you can see them." 

Do they also retrograde if we become wicked? "Their 
faces in a spiritual way present to me the state you are 
in; they are too high to become wicked; the thought 
must not be permitted for a moment." 

Can you tell us nothing of father? "Not yet; be 
patient, all is well ; a purified soul is not born in a day." 

Will you tell us of C. C? "She is in her own home 
now. Our paths lie apart, but my messenger says she 
can perhaps bring you an answer to any question you 
may wish to ask." 

We wish to ask whether she instituted these com- 
munications? "She replies she was one of the forces; 
of herself she is not yet strong enough, she knows of 
them and is permitted to know the results and is so 
happy that your knowledge of these great truths is 
beginning now in the very dawn of the brighter day 



INSIGHT 87 

that is arriving. She always wished for her children 
the very best and nothing less contents her now." 

Is the mother of Reflection with her? "Yes ; she says 
they are often together as they were on earth, not con- 
tinually, but when they desire it. There are many of 
those she loves with her, but more of those who love and 
need her, and she wishes you to know that all the events 
of her earth life (some of which seemed hard to her 
and you) she now sees in their true relation to the 
whole and knows that nothing could have been other- 
wise. She is sure of your love; she says that it was 
given her even while on earth to read your heart aright, 
and what was then so much will seem when you meet 
again, only a poor beginning; and to the others she 
sends these words : keep in the straight path and your 
lives will be again united in one household. Devotion 
is cared for here as she was there, and will not be left 
out when we are all together, but we will all serve her 
as she has served us." 

We wish to ask "INSIGHT" if he learned great 
truths while he was away? "Yes; I saw into the spir- 
itual workings of the universe and was blinded with 
the immensity of the Father's power and love." 

How long a time does the soul spend in a subjective 
state? "There are many hundred years sometimes of 
your time given to the worn and weary soul but how 
long depends upon its condition and strength." 

Does reincarnation sometimes take place immedi- 
ately? "The soul is sometimes unwilling to take its 
rest and as you must always remember the soul is 
always free. It is given to some advanced spirits to 
see into the future and they elect of their own accord 



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to do their appointed work without rest or refreshment. 
They do not often return to your earth, it is only one 
of unnumbered worlds and there are many others where 
they can better carry on their preparations and with 
unerring certainty the soul seeks its best place." 

Then an adept cannot live hundreds of years in the 
same body? "Matter does not perpetuate itself in that 
way ; it is against the law that governs its being." 

Can we not carry such knowledge as we get from you 
with us into the spiritual world? "Yes ; but it must 
be transmuted by the fire of a new birth and become true 
spirit knowledge, before it can really enter into your 
spiritual growth, collecting the knowledge of other 
souls is of no use. True knowledge must become part 
of yourselves to be of use here." 

Will we ever be able to penetrate into all the mys- 
teries in this life? "Do not disturb yourselves about 
the things of the future; 'sufficient to the day,' as I 
have said before, now is the time you are to improve 
and when the time comes for your future lives, the good 
Father will not send you into a void for there is none 
where his loving arms cannot enfold you. I do not 
wish to check you in any pursuit of knowledge, but you 
must learn the alphabet of things before you can pene- 
trate into the mysteries." 

Will we ultimately be able to penetrate into all the 
mysteries ? "Never ; all the lives forever, and forever, 
will still leave things unknown." 

Now we must leave you and say Good-Night ! "I 
will always say good-night in your words for to me, 
still, they mean 'Rest.' " 



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COMMUNICATION XII. 

Can you explain what John meant in Revelation by 
the seven seals? "He was a great seer and he saw far 
into the divine purposes. I, myself, do not yet under- 
stand them." 

Do you still study the Bible? "Not the letter, the 
spirit of which it is the form, is studied by us. Love 
which that great spirit, John, fully developed is the 
only road to such knowledge for love is higher than 
knowledge and is the key to all things. Love on your 
own plane is feeling your brothers' needs. You must 
first love those you see before you love God whom you 
have not seen. With you, Reflection, it can best be 
cultivated by relieving the physical needs of those in 
your daily path." 

Can we ever really love an enemy as one's self? "The 
quality can be the same, to love your enemy means to 
be willing to serve him, not to take him into your life 
for that is impossible." 

Are there others in this world who know you as we 
do? "There are none who know me by the name of 
'INSIGHT' because to you alone do I come in the 
exact way the word signifies in its spiritual sense ; I 
communicate in many ways with many souls but to 
each I mean what they need most." 

Is it right to tell others what you have given us? 
"If they can receive it ; give it to them in your life, that 
can be understood by the most unspiritual." 

Is it possible for beings to live on this earth in their 
Astral bodies? "Thousands of spirits live on what you 



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call your earth, but it does not seem the same earth to 
them." 

Can they do evil? "They can do great evil 
but it is overcome and generally becomes negation; as 
long as you keep your consciousness alive they can do 
you no harm, it is only by following them from curious 
motives that you come within their evil sphere." 

Are there not persons who evoke these spirits ? "The 
powers they evoke are not the highest and they are 
obliged to turn from the path that has been appointed 
and by so doing miss their opportunity to progress, 
and in the end will find themselves obliged to return with 
bleeding feet." 

Can you tell me of a person who has been a teacher 
to a friend, and who I fear is unworthy? "I cannot 
tell you of the evil way for the perception of it cannot 
come into my sphere, but the one sure proof of right 
teaching can be found in the life it produces, not in 
the intellectual growth. Your angel says she thinks 
there is much time wasted in looking afar instead of in 
your immediate circle for information and for work." 

Are we not to seek sympathy outside our circle? "In 
your sphere unfortunately one whom you think most 
sympathetic is often thinking of things from quite 
another standpoint. I understand the trouble that is 
clouding Reflection's mind. Your perceptions are 
sufficiently clear to make you a teacher to many and you 
can be trusted to use your own judgment. The more 
you live out of yourself and for others, the greater will 
be the growth we all long for. 'Do not despise the day 
of small things' has been written, and you must learn 
that to give even a cup of water in the right spirit is 



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sometimes the highest act of worship. You are, if you 
will to be, a great power for good on your earth, but 
you must work first with others in some organized way, 
for the alphabet of things must be learned from with- 
out. The poor in body and in spirit are looking vainly 
for help and as all humanity must be redeemed to- 
gether, you can see how it is meant to love the brother 
as one's self. Each one of us is his brother's keeper, but 
it is not by giving each one such strong meat as you 
are able to receive that help can come. Give milk to 
babes. You are answered in regard to these communi- 
cations ; some can receive them and accept their source, 
others can receive them to whom a knowledge whence 
they came would be a stumbling block. Use discretion. 
You have taught us much and we are grateful to 
you? "You do me no wrong. I understand, and if 
Reflection becomes as I trust he will one of the world's 
workers all I have been to you will be as nothing to 
what he will accomplish. His power will be in the fact 
that like a stone thrown into water he will set in motion 
forces of which he little dreams. Discernment's work 
will be to help the workers of her family and she also 
is destined to be a light to many who will come to her 
for comfort and help in many worlds." 

COMMUNICATION XIII. 

INSIGHT: "We are together again, what are your 
wishes? You must bring your questionings with you. 
I can only answer what arises in your wills." 

Shall we always retain the same form in the future 



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we have now? "You will be to those who see you a 
perfect representation of your spiritual state." 

We mean in future objective worlds? "No; your 
form, even now in your world depends on your spirit 
form, but there is always for humanity the form of 
man for that represents in a spiritual way the form 
of God." 

Where did the old masters get the idea of wings in 
their heavenly forms? "That was the material ex- 
pression of a spiritual truth, which is that in our world 
we overcome space as a bird does." 

I sometimes see beings with wings pass my vision, is 
it imagination? "It is not imagination. They repre- 
sent to you your new freedom and mean that you may 
like them if you will to do so, rise above earth into 1 a 
purer air. They are what we call symbolic beings 
which in all ages have communed with man." 

Where do they dwell? "They are in the spiritual 
world, but are employed by your angel who takes this 
means to arrest your attention." 

Does it show a higher order of organization to be 
able to perceive these manifestations? "Not always; 
the life for each to live is on the plane of his duties and 
this power depends on other conditions than advance- 
ment in spiritual things. &ome bring with them from 
their last subjective state, an atmosphere which enables 
them to see into the spiritual world for a moment." 

Have some of us gone through more incarnations than 
others? "Yes ; but I do not wish you to press that ques- 
tion for of all subjects the past or the future experiences 
of a soul are of the least importance to its advancement. 



INSIGHT 93 

The master meant that when he said, 'Sufficient to the 
day,' etc." 

Have the Indians of North America had fewer in- 
carnations than we? "Yes; that is true of all people 
who are not on your plane of advancement." 

Are all the spirits with whom you are now associated 
to be reincarnated? "They are not all to be reincar- 
nated on your earth, from' whence they have just come, 
but they will all, I think, but am not sure, put on a 
garment of matter. You must not overvalue your little 
earth, for though it is a most favored one, it is only 
one of countless millions." 

Why are some souls sent back to be incarnated and 
some seek it of their own accord? "As with you we do 
not always put the proper value on our acquirements 
but law works in place of all such mistakes and nothing 
that comes to any soul could have been otherwise." 

Do animals go to the spiritual world ? "Yes ; they 
have their rest and repose, what there is of them, as 
well as the highest and most developed spirit forms, 
they bear the same relation to humanity here that they 
do there." 

May we see grandmother today? "She is here. She 
is so happy to come that I have only to send my thought 
weighted with your desires and she is with us." 

Has grandmother seen father? "I have seen him 
with his children since he has left his earth garments 
in the hidden chamber and no words can describe to 
you the splendor of the house or the beauty of the en- 
tertainment in which we were called to take part to 
celebrate his new birth." 

Has he passed into heaven? "Not into heaven; he 



94 INSIGHT 

remains still in the spiritual world with those he com- 
forts and cares for." 

Has he no drawings to those he left on earth? "He 
has and that keeps him from going onward, but it is 
his own election to remain where he is, and his work 
takes all his time and thought." 

What kind of work? "The help he gives to those on 
earth and those who are still bound in the spiritual 
world." 

How does he help those on earth? "He helps them 
through the channel of which I have told you and he 
prefers to remain where he can do so. It is purely 
spiritual help and he gives it with others of his family 
to those he loves, whom he can take into the beautiful 
home his character has built for him and in which he 
lives." 

What is this channel? "Love and knowledge come 
from God and they flow through an appointed channel 
from the highest heaven through the lower ones into 
the good and pure in the world of spirit which is nearest 
to your material plane. The good who form this 
channel in the world of unclothing are always spirits 
who volunteer for that office, and your father, though 
he has many things to learn, is by his attainments, 
fitted for this unselfish office and has willed to be one 
of these." 

Is he perfectly happy? "He is very happy but not 
perfectly happy for he has still the unrest of unsatis- 
fied desires and they can only be changed when he leaves 
his present work." 

Does he know of these communications? "He does 
not know of them in the sense you mean; he feels only 



INSIGHT 95 

that he is doing a work for his own whom he finds 
without a house in the spiritual world and it would not 
be well for him to be disturbed." 

What is the spiritual name of C. C? "Her name 
is Builder. It means that her work is to make a place 
for those who come into her sphere. I shall go to be 
her guest in a state that is approaching me and will 
tell her anything you may desire." 

Will you take her my faithful love? "I shall take 
her what I see in your loving heart and better still I 
shall tell her what I see in your growing spirit." 

Will you not bring us a message from her? "If she 
sends you one. There are to be many guests and I 
shall not force myself on her notice. It will depend 
on the atmosphere I bear with me and on her ability to 
perceive in me of your love and devotion." 

Will you now say good-bye to us ? "Yes ; for that 
means God be with you." 

COMMUNICATION XIV. 

Will you give us a definition of unselfishness? "Un- 
selfishness in our sphere means conforming to the divine 
will from the highest motives, which is the desire to do 
well in the spirit of obedient subjects. There is no 
higher motive for any action than the desire to follow 
the Divine commands ; and the first of all those com- 
mands is to love others in place of self. The wisdom 
of an action depends always on its motive, for the most 
perfect life if lived for self, is no use in making char- 
acter. Motive determines all things." 

Are mistakes punished as well as wrongdoing? "Yes ; 



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even involuntary wrongdoing must have its effects, but 
it does not make the inner life, which is the real one, 
suffer. The suffering is generally felt in your world 
where the mistakes occur and does not follow you into 
the spiritual world." 

Can we control motives? "That comes from con- 
tinued and repeated effort ; every time you act out a 
good motive you put a brick as it were in the wall of 
defense you are trying to build against wrongdoing." 

Is it wrong to enjoy the pleasures of life? "It is 
not wrong to enjoy the beauty that surrounds you. 
Nature, friends, the family ties and even the pleasure 
the young feel in the mere sense of living are all in ac- 
cordance with the Father's will concerning your life 
on earth. If there were no wrongdoing, that is, if 
every creature lived in accordance with law, earth would 
become one of the heavens and there would be nothing 
but joy and happiness where now almost nothing but 
suffering and sorrow reign." 

Is it bad for one's spiritual development to eat meat? 
"Eating has no spiritual influence unless it disturbs 
the physical health and animal food is as harmless as 
any other. Each must judge for himself; the most 
perfect life ever lived on earth was kept in its true 
physical state without the things so many of his fol- 
lowers have taught were necessary. The teaching of 
Christ contains all that is essential for the most perfect 
life and it is not well to be wise above that which is 
written." 

Did you have to learn this art of communicating 
with this world? "It is a law, and my spirit had to per- 



INSIGHT 97 

ceive it ; a process analogous to the study by which your 
intellect arrives at knowledge." 

Do other spirits communicate with this earth as you 
do ? "The communication is more general between mem- 
bers of our society than others, for, as you perceive, 
understanding is the faculty most used in these com- 
munications." 

Can we see Tranquility, with whom you have put us 
in communication? "She is here and is happy to be 
spoken to." (Tranquility!) "Yes; I am of the same 
household with 'INSIGHT' and help to give to our 
beautiful home the peace that passeth even understand- 

ing." 

Can you tell us of your home ? "Imagine all you have 
ever conceived of beauty and comfort and build a house 
adorned with those fancies, then fill it with guests who 
without speaking, know each others 1 ' thoughts and who 
live in the most perfect sympathy, and you can perhaps 
have an idea of our home." 

What decides who shall dwell together? "There is 
the law of attraction where like seeks like. Here we 
could not be together for a moment if the perfect accord 
were broken." 

Suppose some whom you loved were not able to come 
into your heaven? "They would come when their at- 
tainments warranted their admittance. The door 
stands always open and none can be denied, but none 
desire to come who are not fitted, for none but the pure 
and worthy could breathe our atmosphere of love and 
peace." 

Suppose one desired to be with you whom you did not 
desire? "That could not happen with us, for even 



98 INSIGHT 

with you it does not really occur. If one desires your 
love and sympathy he cannot obtain it unless you are 
in accord with the wish. With us, there are no appear- 
ances as with you. We each live to ourselves and to 
others our real life. Who with you sees your real self? 
They see what is illusory and changing, not what is 
substantial and eternal. Each spirit with us sees what 
it is prepared to see, not our entire self; that is only 
given to those in the same state of advancement." 

Are there children in your heaven? "No; for little 
children grow into maidenhood and manhood in the 
heaven beneath us and come to us in their prime. Do 
you not understand, it is as with you. The souls on 
earth meet on a common plane of understanding and 
spirits must do the same. An uneducated savage could 
not understand a seer, neither can a half-developed 
spirit understand one more highly cultivated and nearer 
the source of light." 

Do you ever see Christ? "We see him as you see the 
sun in your heavens ; when no cloud of our own making 
interferes we can always bask in his sublime presence 
and feel the rays of his divine love." 

Do you not see him visibly? "We feel a greater de- 
gree of what you may feel on earth, but sometimes he 
takes form and comes to us as a visible guest." 

Can we then see Christ as you do? "Yes; if you 
live the life he lived, you will feel him in your spirit 
and delight in his presence and it will be joy and peace 
and contentment which nothing earthly can give you." 

Are we three who are here advancing in spiritual 
things? "I can see your angels and can learn from 
their faces for their lips are sealed concerning their 



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charges ; and 1 I understand something of the struggle 
you are making to reach higher and nobler things." 

We wish we could help others as you help us ? "The 
union between us is, that we are all members of the same 
part of the perfect man, and I am near you as part of 
this great whole. You are to us as the hand to the head, 
and we think of you as part of ourselves. You are 
doing your work, not as well perhaps as you might, 
but every little helps and our first lesson is that there 
is no small or great but all is to be counted at the same 
value." 

Will you tell Endurance what you find among her 
greatest defects? "I see that you are especially im- 
patient of the brother who does not meet your expec- 
tations, but that is not the love of which you have been 
told. The love that thinketh no evil is what you must 
cultivate and this is for you all. It is the error that 
comes oftenest to you all in doing the work you have 
to do." 

What is Discernment's greatest defect? "I think 
but am not sure, Insight would know best, that it is the 
need of patient continuing in well doing without any 
apparent result. You want to force the growth and 
have not patience to wait with faith for the slow un- 
folding." 

What is Aspiration's great defect? "It is somewhat 
similar, you do not have as high an ideal for those you 
would benefit as you should, not as high as your own 
best aspirations give you; you are inclined to be con- 
tented with small things." 

What is Discernment's greatest desire? "It is the 
desire for the very best for yourself and those you 



100 INSIGHT 

love, and when that love is elevated to its spiritual plane 
it will be of the highest and purest kind ; now it is mixed 
with much that defiles it, but in the years that are to 
come for you, you will refine it into something better. 
Since I have known Discernment this love has lost some 
of its dross and its pure gold is often visible." 

Will Insight tell us something of Tranquility? "She 
is the beloved and honored mother of our home, to whom 
we owe more than I could make plain to you of the de- 
lights of that home, for with my eager seeking after 
knowledge she gives me the peaceful content that a 
mother gives to her weary son on earth. Always re- 
member every emotion you feel is but a shadow of the 
real one, its counterpart in the spiritual heaven." 

Are souls ever reincarnated from the spiritual world? 
"They are reincarnated from every world, sometimes 
from the spiritual world, sometimes from the first, some- 
times from 1 our heaven." 

Do not all go to heaven? "Some are not worthy. 
They have their repose in one of the many spheres of 
the spiritual world. Those who attain to the Celestial 
Heaven above us never return to your earth." 

May we see grandmother? "She is here." 

To what society does grandmother belong? "I be- 
long to part of the heart." 

Will you tell us of father? "You could not under- 
stand exactly the state he is in now, for you could not 
bring it into any accord with him as you have known 
him ; he is happy and is the most willing and industrious 
spirit and only anxious to conform in all ways to the 
law that governs his new life. He is leading those whom 
he finds needing help into his own happiness. The one 



INSIGHT 101 

who has cared for them is now with me in my own 
home." 

Should we think constantly of those who have gone? 
"Do not put us out of your thoughts but let those 
thoughts be unselfish ones and give us the joy of your 
love though we are separated from you. Do not grieve 
for those who are born into our beautiful world, for 
those whom you love are so happy here and your dear 
ones are together." 

Can you not tell us something of C C 

today? "I have been in her beautiful city and have 
seen her and she desired a message to be given to you in 
return for all the loving thoughts I bore her from you. 
She is happy and she says no eye has seen the beauty 
that it is given her to discern in her beloved home, and 
that you must all continue in your longings for the 
things of the spirit, and conform your lives to the 
knowledge that has been given you." 

Does she help me in my anxieties here? "She gave 
me to understand that she was to do her work now in 
her own city and did not speak of having any given her 
on your plane." 

Does she use her talent for acting in any way? "It 
is much used and the power is so developed that she is 
capable of creating real scenes, to represent her ideas 
that seem like pictures on your earth. Something out- 
side of herself entirely, as a sculptor can make his ideas, 
something that can be touched and handled, so her 
representations are real to those she wishes to teach or 
entertain." 

Can you only see us when this circle is formed? 
"I cannot see you at any other time unless there is 



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some similar one established as there has been. 'IN- 
SIGHT' says if it is necessary there will be a way 
found and that you must not think he will cease to care 
for you, for he shall see your angels and know of your 
state and will establish some means of helping you, al- 
though you may not know it in the same way you do 
now." 

How can we always know exactly what is right to do ? 
"The only way to decide between the right and wrong 
is to analyze the motive; if that is good the deed can- 
not be wrong." 

Is there ever danger of our losing our place in the 
society to which we belong? "There is no danger of 
your belonging to another society, but there is danger 
of your not reaching your place in the one to which you 
belong ; each soul can do as it will and not even the Lord 
of all, could force you into a place to which you did 
not wish to go." 

Do you see Courage? "Yes; he is here happy and 
beautiful. He is the most lovely spirit that comes with 
your circle and is always within our sight when you 
come to me. Your angel and he are seldom separated 
for one desires the other." 

We are very grateful for all you have told us today? 
"You are all so dear to us that we wish to tell you that 
you also help us. Through you I have known the dear 
mother, and it is to be given me to be her guide and 
teacher, in the new things that are to be unfolded to her 
loving vision." 

How have we been the means of this? "All things 
come to us as to you ; the cause becomes the effect, and 
the channel of which all form a part is an unbroken 



INSIGHT 103 

circle and you brought with you this beautiful spirit, 
for you form her atmosphere and it is her love which 
binds you all together and makes you the power which 
you are. Good-bye ! We shall not be really apart for 
if our lives are the same we shall be on the same plane 
and will be together though you and I may know it 
not." 

COMMUNICATION XV. 

Do we change our society sometimes ? "We do not ; 
we change our places in the same society sometimes as a 
preparation; or for some information, one forms for a 
time a part of a society, but it is only as a visitor." 

Why did grandmother tell us first that she belonged 
to the hands and in the last writing that she belonged 
to the heart? "She had left her real place at her own 
desire to be with her children, and as the hands, she 
was able to come nearer to them because the work she 
did is symbolic of the hands — she has been the leader. 
The mother did not know she was not in her rightful 
place because she had shut herself voluntarily into 
your state. She now knows her true position and is to 
learn many things her work has prevented her from 
acquiring. With us everything is seen in accordance 
with our state, and doing the work of the hands, she 
saw no further. She has always belonged to the heart, 
but she herself did not perceive it till her work that she 
had set herself to do was accomplished. Some spirits 
never know their true position." 

Do both souls and spirits go to heaven? "Yes; the 
soul comes to my heaven ; in the heaven above there is 
nothing but pure spirit." 



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Are you a soul? "Yes ; I am a soul but when in my 
best state it is laid aside as your bodies are at death, 
only I can resume it again." 

Are these occasions when you seek communion with 
God? "Yes ; there are hours with us of inspiration and 
exaltation, as with you, and then I am out of my body." 

Then the soul is substantial? "Yes; and in my 
heaven it is needed for the protection of the spirit." 

How do you protect your body when you leave it? 
"The Lord gives us the power to protect all that is 
necessary to us and our coverings are in safe keepings." 

Can we ever succeed in leaving our bodies in the same 
way? "That is not possible for you, except in your 
degree ; the way is to bring your mind, your desires and 
your will into accord with the Divine will by prayer 
and good deeds." 

One cannot always succeed in praying? "One can- 
not always ; the desire as you have it is accepted and you 
have already had moments of great peace and con- 
tent. There are some of the Father's children to whom 
this joy never comes ; so be willing to work, and wait 
with faith and patience." 

Do forms change in other objective worlds? "In the 
material of which they are composed. The soul having 
once become in the form of a man has nothing higher 
to attain, and can never be degraded to anything lower. 
(Answer to mental question) The mother might have 
known all had she so desired. Knowledge only comes 
with desire and she is so single-minded that she did not 
even ask what her ultimate place was to be." 

I was afraid to have doubts and to question this? 
"It was not wrong; all earnest craving for truth is 



INSIGHT 105 

right and you must always ask for explanations, for 
there may come misunderstandings in these writings 
as they depend on so many conditions. Perfect love 
casteth out fear. There should be no fear between you 
and me. Trust me as I do you, in all things." 

What are the duties of Tranquility in your home? 
"To give rest and peace to spirits who, like 'INSIGHT,' 
are ever longing and striving to acquire knowledge and 
understanding of the laws that govern the universe." 

I thought we were to cease striving, after this life? 
"Progress means striving; nothing comes without de- 
sire, but with us as with you, there are hours of work 
and hours of repose." 

What is your work? "My work is to receive those 
who come for rest and I also am seeking to advance as 
well as they, but I only wish to know the Father's will 
and do it. They desire to penetrate into the mystery 
of the work of creation and find out the wisdom of 
God." 

Did you know "INSIGHT" before you met in Heav- 
en ? "I knew him only as an inmate of this Heaven ; 
we came here at the same state of development and find- 
ing ourselves in perfect accord, live in the same house 
with others who are also like ourselves." 

How many are there in your house? "There are six 
of us." 

Can you make us understand about your houses? 
"As your bodies are the lowest manifestation of spirit 
so your houses are the lowest manifestation of ours. 
Ours bear the same relation to our spiritual wants that 
yours do to your material wants." 

Is it wrong to desire that our spiritual eyes shall be 



106 INSIGHT 

opened here so we may see you? "That is not your ap- 
pointed work, so that it is not the highest ambition; 
many things are not wrong of themselves which are not 
desirable." 

But we wish to know how to use those faculties when 
we arrive in the spiritual world? "Then your eyes 
will be opened in proportion as you have done well or 
ill in your life of probation. It is not well in the ways 
you mean. Each one should desire the spiritual sight 
that will enable him to see his own spirit and the needs 
of his own growth and to recognize the Father's will. 
The sight into the world nearest your own which might 
be acquired would not assist you in this work. You 
do not accept and study the way, therefore, you be- 
wilder yourself. The way is the life and teachings of 
Christ, as 'INSIGHT' says he told you in the very 
beginning of these communications. Christ has shown 
the right path and there is no' more light needed than 
he has given. His words are very simple and a child 
can understand them ; come to them as a little child and 
you will see their meaning. Reflection's mind is more 
understood by 'INSIGHT' than by me for they both 
have the minds of the seeker." 

"Insight wishes to say to Reflection that Tranquility 
has spoken words of wisdom. Take one of the com- 
mands you find in Christ's teachings each day and make 
it the guide of that day and you will soon understand, 
but do not expect to learn the whole science in one 
trying. Look each for yourself into the words of the 
great teacher and you cannot go wrong. Do not take 
what some one else says about his teachings but the 
very words as they fell from his lips." 



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How can we know that the words as we have them 
fell from his lips? " Do you suppose that if the All 
Wise revealed Himself to man He did not take care that 
that revelation should be preserved?" 

How? "In the gospels as you have been taught. All 
other systems of truth, though humanity has had many, 
are inferior to this. You are only required to do what 
each race of mankind has been required to do, — to 
accept and put into their lives the manifestation of 
God given them." 

Is grandmother present and will she tell us of father? 
"I am here ! There is no change in the condition of 
which I spoke to you. W is with him." 

Why has W remained so long in the spiritual 

world? Why has he not made more rapid progress? 
"He has not been able to accept the situation ; his long- 
ings and desires have all been towards those he left on 
your earth. Your father's mind is more mature and he 
comes to us as an apple perfectly ripe falls from a tree ; 
he is willing to be here and is able to see that his prog- 
ress toward the highest could not have gone on in his 
infirm body." 

Can you tell me of A and has she been with 

father? " She is a beautiful spirit and is in this Heaven ; 
she was in the spirit world to welcome him and sometimes 
now at his strong desire she goes to him. But when he 
learned she had her own beautiful home and her own 
duties, he has not called for her again. He is very 
happy with his own work and his own lessons which those 
of his household study together and is intent in doing 
what his hands find to do." 

What is his work? "His work now is to learn the 



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laws that govern the growth of the soul in the world 
he has just entered and to teach them to those who are 
about him." 

Have you seen C. C. again? "I have not seen her 
again since her great feast but then she was so grand 
and so beautiful that I have had her in my thoughts, 
and that with us brings us always near each other." 

How did she look? "She was as if she had just 
passed her prime; she has not attained her full youth 
yet, that will come later, but she was beautiful and so 
loving to me because I seemed to bring you with me. 
:When we met, she could see my thought and your mes- 
sage, as we see the face of a friend, and with one look 
we conveyed to each other more than you could tell by 
many pages of writing." 

When you meet her again will you convey a mes- 
sage? "I shall not leave my own place soon for I feel 
so ignorant since I have seen 'INSIGHT' that I must 
give myself up to acquire knowledge that will make 
me worthy to fill my place well." 

Will you then be able to come to us? "I shall do 
then as 'INSIGHT' thinks best. When I accept him 
as my teacher, I only shall do> his bidding." 

We wish to ask Insight why this writing tires us all? 
"Because I take of your material strength in establish- 
ing the channel. It is obliged to come through your 
plane. As it is so remote from me you do most of the 
work there." 

Do you use certain qualities in one and certain others 
in another ? "No ; it is what you would call brain force 
from you all. The more your spirits are in accord the 
clearer the communication." 



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Is there any truth in the theory of automatic writ- 
ing and unconscious cerebration? "As I see it, it 
seems to me like smoke or clouds obscuring the sky. 
There is no truth in it as far as these writings are 
concerned, for although you all furnish the power the 
ideas are entirely beyond you, and there is real tangible 
communication between us, of one intelligence with 
another." 

Can my angel bear you a message from me? "Yes; 
he is able but not always willing to show the spiritual 
condition of your soul, but you may tell him to do so 
and if you are sufficiently determined he will obey." 

How can we cultivate will power? "In a good direc- 
tion by each day little by little overcoming faults." 

Is it right for me to will that my angel should carry 
you a message? "It is if the motive is right; that is 
one true test; if the wish is for information or a desire 
to rise to my plane the motive will be good!." 

We thank you and will try to follow all the advice 
you have given us. "One must learn to step before one 
can run and you must be willing to begin at the begin- 
ning." 

Will you not remember us in your prayers? "You 
are always in them and I shall not forget the guidance 
you will need in your first efforts." 

COMMUNICATION XVI. 

INSIGHT: "What are your desires? I stand for 
you inside an open door." 

What is the kingdom of God? "The kingdom of 
God is in every true, devout and faithful heart. Where- 



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ever God's will is supreme there is his kingdom, and 
when all represent that kingdom the real reign that 
Christ spoke of, will begin and all things will be brought 
back to God. Do you not remember the Master said 
'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' " 

What is the meaning of "May thy Kingdom come"? 
"It means that every will may be brought into subjec- 
tion, or rather into willing obedience to God's will. The 
prayer adds, 'As in Heaven.' Here, there is no will 
but God's and this is not subjection but ready and 
active correspondence with all that is good and right." 

Are there other guardian angels with you than ours? 
"Yes ; for all desire to understand these things here as 
you do from your side." 

Are they anxious to listen to your teachings? "No; 
it is not that, but we are as anxious to reach you as you 
are to come to us and when your presence here is per- 
ceived many who are in our state are attracted and 
listen to your desires." 

How can our crude thought have any interest for 
them? "We do not think of our own good but of the 
good of others, but even if we did, it would be an incen- 
tive, for the progress of each individual depends in a 
measure on the progress of the whole." 

Is it far in actual space from here to heaven? "Can 
it be far, if the kingdom is within you? Space as you 
understand it does not exist for us and there is no 
space between you and me ; that belongs only to the 
material world. You perhaps do not get a clear idea 
of it, but think of space for a moment and you will see 
that it changes itself into time and so you might, if 



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you could think from your spirit, see that time was 
only sensation." 

You said in a former writing that we were so remote 
from you? "I meant that the material form in which 
it reaches you is remote from our mode of communica- 
tion here. To think is to know; with you many 
words only obscure your meaning." 

Will you tell us of your own age? "I am in the very 
prime of my youth, not perfected yet, for I have many 
things to learn, but I am young and as capable of all 
the enjoyments of my celestial home as a man of twenty 
is of his material life. There is no growing old with 
us ; we are always in perfect health, in perfect receptive 
condition for all the blessings the Father sends." 

Are you ever weary? "We are not weary as you 
understand that word, but we have moments in which 
we need and seek repose ; and if we say we are weary 
there is no sense of discomfort only a desire for another 
form of happiness. There are times when I seek my 
home to tell its beloved ones of what I have discovered 
of the Father's wisdom and I go to it as a son to his 
mother for sympathy." 

Will you tell us of marriage in heaven? "That is 
the last blessing perfected spirit receives and we have 
not yet attained to that." 

Are not those who have been married here, together 
there? "If they really and truly are in perfect sym- 
pathy they are instructed that after they are prepared 
for it that relation will be resumed, if they are not in 
spiritual sympathy they are nothing to one another: 
as you outgrow your earthly loves during your short 
life there, so in heaven you care nothing for the mis- 



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takes of your previous existence. No real love, how- 
ever, can be without its effect on character, andl love 
makes you more fit to enter into the highest joys of this 
life, which is made up of love and of acts that pro- 
ceed from love." 

How can we love Christ more? "The desire will 
bring the fulfillment. First love the brother for Christ's 
sake and the other will follow." 

How shall we recognize you in heaven? "How do 
you know a friend after many years of separation? 
Not by his outer appearance, for that is not the same, 
but by his soul looking through his eyes ; with us one 
word, one look, will make us acquainted." 

Is grandmother now with you? "She is with me 
part of the time ; when she desires she comes to us but 
she still clings to her work in her own heaven and is 
even at times in the spirit world." 

May we see her today? "She has been with us since 
you came and is eager to speak with you." 

Have you seen father again ? "Yes ; for a stay with 
him in response to his desire. All is beautiful, and he 
spoke to me of his children, those on your earth and 
those here and they are all dear to his heart and often 
in his thoughts." 

Does it keep him back to think of us? "Thinking 
of others as he thinks, is a means of growth. He thinks 
of you now as spirit and he has given up all desire for 
material things. He is content now with his condition 
and all its surroundings and is as interested in them 
as he ever was in his cares on earth. He thinks of you 
now as he did then of those who had preceded him into 



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the spiritual world, and he knows he shall see you again 
when the Father wills." 

Can you tell us what "INSIGHT" is teaching you? 
"No, dear, I could not make your baby mind understand 
the things that pertain to my womanhood. There is 
no joy on earth no matter how perfect, no happiness 
no matter how unalloyed, which could give you the 
least conception of what comes to me each moment of 
my life here. Live your earthly lives, my dear ones, 
with your heart and your strength in your work and 
look forward with happy hearts to something brighter 
and better awaiting you when its duties have all been 
performed and its blessings all enjoyed." 

Have you seen C. C. again ? "I have not. I am now 
with many new duties and interests and my old ones 
are leaving me and 'INSIGHT' says that very soon 
I may remain with him and my work will then be en- 
tirely with those who can come to me." 

Can we not communicate directly with C. C. ? "It 
is not possible with a spirit in her sphere to come into 
direct communication with you, it is 'INSIGHT' who 
speaks. There are more differences in state in our 
world than in yours and with you it is not always pos- 
sible to come into the company of all who inhabit your 
earth ; with us one must be in accord even to be seen 
or perceived." 

Will Insight tell us which heaven he is in? "In 
the very first sphere above the spiritual heaven. The 
celestial heaven in its highest state is still very far 
above me. I am and have been since you first came 
to me in this sphere of the celestial heavens. Did you 
think otherwise? I have told you many times that the 



114< INSIGHT 

spheres or states here are without number. You ask 
the same thing over and over again, but that is right ; 
come to me always with the thought and wish of your 
heart, for a teacher must expect to repeat himself many 
times, but learn patience with those who come to you 
in the same way, forgetting what you have given them." 

Who is the angel of the resurrection? "The Lord 
is the resurrection and the life ; it is his spirit alone that 
has power to bid those who are to be born into our 
world, 'awake to life.' " 

Shall I be able to reach you in any way after Endur- 
ance goes ? "By practice you will learn to write and I 
shall see that no evil comes near you. Write whatever 
comes no matter from whom and you will at last develop 
your latent power. You shall be protected but do not 
allow yourself to fear; that ignoble feeling brings 
what you would most dread. Nothing comes but as 
an effect from a cause and many things through many 
years have contributed to Endurance having her pres- 
ent power." 

I thought you said you could not see physical things? 
"The power is not physical; the physique is only used 
as an instrument." 

Are you now in your own house? "No; I am. as it 
were just inside the gate of a greater city and your 
angels stand without and form a link in the chain which 
binds us together." 

Is there country near and is it beautiful? "More 
beautiful than any experience of earth or any dream 
of heaven has ever given you." 

Have we progressed much spiritually since we have 
known you? "You forget what a short time has 



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elapsed since we first knew each other even as you 
measure things ; with us who measure time by states it 
is even shorter." 

Is not your house very beautiful? "I have what I 
am worthy to receive." 

This is our last interview, as Endurance goes away 
tomorrow! "It has been arranged that you shall have 
all you need. Do not regret that these communications 
are to end, for you now need time to digest what I have 
given you and make it part of your life. You will 
always have, if you seek it, the inner light." 

I hope we shall never be entirely separated from 
you; no other teacher could take your place to us! 
"The bond between us is not for a day, and we shall 
always need each other." 

Is there such a thing with you as mirth or a sense 
of the ridiculous ? "Yes ; every sense you have that 
contributes to your enjoyment is real and a part of 
this life ; the sense is, however, never used, as it is so 
often with you, at the expense of the brother." 

How do we know how much of the suffering and 
misery in the world is God's will and how much man's 
mistake? "None of it is God's will. Suffering is the 
result of broken laws and is it natural that a loving 
Father should inflict it, as many suppose, on His child- 
ren ? Fight all suffering, all disease ; that is your high- 
est mission, as it is ours, and the more you conquer it 
the nearer the blessed end will come for which we all 
so long." 

Ought not we to endeavor to "kill out desire"? "Do 
not believe that ; desire, if for someting good, is found 
even in the heart of the highest heaven." 



116 INSIGHT 

Is self-satisfaction a thing we should struggle 
against? "It is not a thing you will encounter often 
if you keep your ideal high, but having done your best 
approve of it, for God Himself will say, 'Well done, 
good and faithful servant.' Do not undervalue your- 
self either; justice is the highest of all attributes." 

Will you explain more clearly why some souls seek 
reincarnation and some come back against their will? 
"There is a law for this, as for all things. Some 
spirits rebel against it, as some with you rebel against 
their birth out of the flesh; but all must succumb to 
this law. When the spirit refuses to think of its new 
birth into matter the law takes its course under diffi- 
culties. As with you, the good citizen feels no law, 
only those who wish to rebel." 

We have been asked if you have taught us any new 
truths? "I have given you truths which were new to 
you, but not to all men for truth is always to be had 
for the asking or seeking, and many have gleaned be- 
fore you in these fields." 

We are writing what you have given us into a book ! 
"I have been told that you gave what I have taught you 
much thought and I am careful that the truths shall 
appear clear to your minds. Do not think too much 
of your own growth. Do your work and the progress 
will follow and in the end you will see what you have 
accomplished with wondering vision that so much has 
sprung from such seemingly small things ; you are as 
jewels in my crown, for blessed is the man who brings 
even one little one into the Father's Kingdom." 

But every one would be thankful to be taught by 
you! "They all have their opportunities if not in 



INSIGHT 117 

what you call the now, the time will come for them for 
God's time is without limit, and every soul is being 
brought, some through darkness, into the everlasting 
light. See that you give freely what you have received, 
give it in your life and also seek out the ignorant and 
teach them the words that fell from the lips of the 
Perfect Man. It is not given to many to receive knowl- 
edge, as you have done, from our sphere, and it would 
not be well for the many. Give it them without telling 
of me for you will find elsewhere all that is necessary 
for those I mean." 

I feel unworthy to teach others. "The worthiness 
will come with the doing; would you expect to learn 
anything without practice? And you, Discernment, are 
particularly fitted for such work for you have what 
draws all hearts to you if you so> will. The nature that 
has been given you through many ages of progression 
and your ten talents will be required of you. Each of 
you whose angel is with me, is well fitted for such work 
and Devotion must not think that nothing is expected 
of her ; she can help the weak and sorrowing for she can 
come very near them and they will confide in her more 
than in many." 

Do you feel an interest in the progress of science in 
this world? "We feel the very greatest in all spiritual 
growth ; what you call science has been of little interest 
to me since I came here where I have the key to those 
mysteries that the intellect of man is still searching 
for." 

Can Reflection have some news of his mother? "I 
will send your angel to take you to the door of the 



118 INSIGHT 

heaven where she is. Reflection is welcome; what are 
his desires?" 

To whom are we speaking? "To Forbearance." 

Can you tell me of my mother? "She is in a new city 
in our beautiful home andJ with those she most loves and 
is happy." 

Do you know all the spirits where you are? "It is 
given me to know all in my heaven, and I know from 
your angel the spirit of whom you ask." 

In which heaven are you? "In the heaven between 
the world of new-born souls and the heaven of the 
great one who sent you to me." 

Is "INSIGHT" universally known as being great? 
"Throughout our heaven, for he comes to us some- 
times as a great teacher does to you." 

Will you tell Reflection of his mother? "She is with 
the other of whom we spoke, and their work is to build 
the city for the reception of those who every hour join 
their ranks from the spirit world." 

Can you bring a message from her? "She comes to 
speak without, with your angel, and she wishes you to 
know that in the beginning of these teachings it was 
given her to know they were to be, and her message is 
that you carefully heed them and live in accordance with 
the spirit of love and unselfishness they embody. She 
is in perfect accord with your beautiful angel, who 
holds her hand and allows her to see into her calm and 
lovely face which reflects the improvement that has 
come into your life since your thoughts have been 
turned heavenward." 

Can you not make us understand better about your 



INSIGHT 119 

present work? "You could not understand! now. Do 
well jour part in the work and wait for the clear vision ; 
it cannot come to you in your prison house of flesh, but 
the time is not long, occupy it and it will seem all the 
shorter." 

Forbearance, can you tell us anything of your former 
life on this earth? "What I now am is more useful for 
you to know than the road by which I reached my place 
and here I am the one who bears the burden of all the 
spirits who come in countless numbers to our heaven. 
All come to me and the burden is pleasant and I re- 
joice in my work. Your great teacher once filled my 
place and my reward is to go where he is now, when the 
appointed hour arrives." 

Will you tell us something about "INSIGHT"? 
"When I came, a little naked one, into this blessed place 
he received me and for many long years, as you count 
time, he taught me and to him I owe what I am. You 
are favored ones indeed, that have been found worthy 
in your state to hear his words of wisdom. When a 
teacher was asked for, for you, he volunteered because 
he knew that the cord which binds souls and spirits to- 
gether, could be stretched to you." 

I did not know we should depend on others after go- 
ing to heaven? "The moment that dependence is 
broken, hell begins." 

Do you have times of sleep with you? "Not like 
your natural sleep, but we rest in perfect assurance 
that God is behind the darkness, and when we wake it 
is light because our thoughts turn to the source of 
light. Night does not come to all at once as it does 



120 INSIGHT 

to you, each spirit has what it desires. Light and work 
or repose and twilight. In some cities where all the 
dwellers are in perfect harmony it is night to all at 
once, but in others as with you some repose while 
others make their own light and work." 

Are we detaining you from other duties ? "There are 
no more important duties than to give to those who ask. 
God Himself, we are taught, has no higher work." 

Do you think of God as a personality? "We have 
no means of knowing God in our present state, except 
as Christ has revealed Him and we pray as he has 
taught both us and you to the Father, in his name." 

Do you ever see Christ? "He comes to us in our 
hours of deepest spirituality, at other times he is our 
light and we look at him from afar as you do at your 
natural sun." 

Can we ever behold him as a spiritual sun? "Yes ; you 
can feel and you have felt both his light and heat and 
the nearer you live his life, the stronger that light and 
heat will glow in your heart." 

Now we must say good-bye. "INSIGHT," will you 
not come to us again soon ? "Yes ; if you need me. 
I shall be found by you, but now you must cease asking 
and begin doing, and I shall rejoice at the results of 
your labor. I must not come to you as you call it, 
unless there is need of my doing so. There will be joy 
among us all from the highest heaven to your friends 
in the spiritual world, if you will live as well as you 
know." 

AMEN! 



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COMMUNICATION XVII. 

AFTER AN INTERVAL OF A YEAR. 

INSIGHT: "You are welcome and expected. I have 
felt our united desires and have known ever since I 
returned that you longed to do so. What shall I give 
you?" 

From whence have you returned? "From where you 
have known of my going into another state." 

Then it was not you, "INSIGHT," who came to us 
the other day? "No; I was then where you could not 
come. I see now you were unable to reach me and were 
intercepted by spirits who belong to our society, but 
who are not using their power for good. You could 
not have been long deceived by them. Have I not 
promised that those evils should not harm you. Do not 
fear." 

Does it seem as long to you as it does to us since we 
were together before? "It has not been long. I am 
often with you." 

Must the process of Regeneration take place on this 
earth? "Yes; it must begin on your earth; man must 
come to it in an objective life." 

Then even after what is called being "born again" 
one must return to earth? "He must usually come 
back to an objective life, for man may be only born, 
and growth must follow." 

What can a man do to prepare the conditions of this 
new birth? "The human soul is the field in which the 
germ is planted and God alone can give the increase. 
As Paul has written, the spirit is always there, but 



122 INSIGHT 

unless the soul is ready you do not perceive his pres- 
ence." 

Are the greater proportion of humanity living today, 
regenerate? "That is not true in your present state 
of development for evil is very powerful yet in your 
world." 

Is it possible to be mistaken about having attained 
regeneration ? "Yes ; most possible and it is often done. 
Man puts his own ideas in place of the true law and is 
a self deceiver." 

Is is still possible to perceive the star in the East? 
"That phase of life has passed, for it was only a 
symbol of the Sun of Righteousness." 

Can one behold the Sun of Righteousness here on 
earth? "Yes; all those in whom the Christ-life has 
become a part of their nature." 

How can one be sure to attain eternal life ? "A man 
may be sure of that life if the tendency of his thoughts 
is Heavenward. The guide to it is the Christ life." 

Is the present manifestation of God in our world 
what "Jesus Christ" spoke of as the Comforter? "It 
is, and it is hid as he said it should be with Christ in 
God. That is, in the God that is within each regene- 
rate soul." 

Does one always know the exact moment at which 
spiritual rebirth has taken place? "Not always, but 
the first mark is the going out from self to the brother." 

Not first of all to God? "No; that is a common 
error; many who think themselves born again are mis- 
taken because they first attempt to scale heaven before 
they have reached the mountain tops of earth." 

Are the souls in heaven who must return to earth 



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to seek regeneration not disappointed that they can- 
not obtain it there? "We have no disappointments in 
heaven, how can we have when we keep ourselves ready 
to fulfil all law." 

Is that part of Christ which is in the human soul the 
same as the Holy Ghost? "The part of God that was 
on earth in the purified human soul of Jesus is still 
in each soul who follows his teaching and keeps his 
commandments ; even in the souls of those who never 
heard his name." 

What I meant to ask was whether Christ and the 
Holy Ghost are identical? "They are the same. As 
you speak of the character of a friend. The writers 
of the word meant the same. 'The spirit of Christ 
is the God manifested to humanity.' " 

Was Jesus Christ not born just as any other mortal 
must be? "He was as far as his earthly body was 
concerned. He broke no law but said himself that he 
had come to fulfill all law." 

Had his human soul not gone through many previous 
incarnations? "His human soul was the first begotten 
for it was the first perfectly spiritualized human soul. 
'Discernment' sees the great truth that has been so 
misunderstood." 

Did you know this when you were on earth? "I had 
no glimpse of it." 

That want of knowledge then does not now prevent 
your comprehending these truths ? "No ; it does not 
for I keep my soul open to the good and true according 
to my light." 

Do you use your intellect in your present condition 
or only your intuitive faculties ? "My intellect is used 



1M INSIGHT 

to its utmost capacity and grows as I approach new 
truth." 

Will you use your present knowledge in another in- 
carnation? "Most certainly all that I leam now will 
be latent in my next incarnation and I shall begin to 
perceive truth where I leave off here." 

You once asked us to tell you our idea of God. My 
idea of the great 'First Cause' is that He is a condition, 
may that be so? "God must be unconditioned, it is 
only the limited that can be governed by condition." 

Perhaps if I had said "State" it would have better 
expressed my idea? "God is more than your idea of 
Him. A state expresses one thought of Him but He em- 
braces all things and all human thought will forever 
fail to reach Him or to explain Him." 

My thought was that what nature is to physical man, 
God is to spiritual man. Are there not correspondences 
between things above and things below? "Yes ; created 
things : I see what your thought is and as far as it goes 
it is a correct one. He is you and He is the highest 
archangel, and you and He are part of this Infinite 
which you are trying vainly to put into words. It 
would be impossible for the human mind in its present 
state to conceive of God as pure spirit, which He really 
is. We use words but they mean nothing to us." 

Have you no other means of knowing God than we 
have? "I may have a clearer vision, but it is still 
human and as Christ taught us, I call him still Father 
for that means Creator, protector, lover." 

Does the vision of Christ in the soul seem the same 
to all who behold it? "No; to each soul he is different, 



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for as no two faces are alike so each soul bears its in- 
dividual image of God." 

Is it true that the kingdom of heaven must be taken 
by violence and how? "The violence that conquers the 
evil within man and guards the threshold of the en- 
trance to the soul. That is what I feel sure must have 
been meant. Your questions, some of them, have never 
presented themselves to me before." 

What is the 'Word' as used in the New Testament? 
"The Word is God in his character of Creator and 
Manif ester. Nature and the spirit are its great sym- 
bols to our race. God spake and all things were made ; 
hence, to those who first received the idea, came the 
term. The idea had to come to man's intelligence but 
any other term might have been used, for words signify 
nothing in themselves." 

Has each soul a word that expresses it? "Yes; that 
is so, for each soul bears a separate and individual re- 
lation to the great Source." 

Could we not discover that word? "It is not of great 
importance at present, for now you and I must be 
making ourselves worthy of that new name which it is 
written is to be found in the book of life." 

Is this the name that shall be written on a white 
stone ? "Yes ; all those things are used as symbols ; I 
know of a better one which I have just learned; do you 
perceive it? I mean a new symbol. I am trying to 

give it to you. 'Write it, Endurance' 1 see it cannot 

be ; wait with patience until you are wiser." 

Where did you learn this symbol? "In the universe 
to which I have just been." 

M. wishes to know whether it is well to think of God 



126 INSIGHT 

as having form? "Yes ; if that is the way you can come 
nearest to Him. Does Onward wish to know of those 
she has with us? Succor is here and has been waiting 
for Onward to ask." 

Will she tell us of Aspiration? (Aspiration had left 
us since our last interview.) "I have been with my dear 
child until she no longer needed me and I can tell you 
all about her coming into the spirit world, and of her 
present state. She is now at rest ; at first she came 
with great reluctance from you all and refused for 
many days to be reconciled. This was greatly caused 
by the suddenness of her coming, but she was here as 
there, willing to be led and after seeing those she loved 
on this side she became happier. She is now at rest 
before her new birth in your father's world, but she 
is not with him for the new birth cannot take place but 
in obscurity and darkness. I mean the preparation 
for it." 

Was it not a great happiness to father to see her? 
"He was very happy and their meeting was most beau- 
tiful." 

Is father still doing a "work for his own" in the 
spiritual world? "Not only for his own but for all 
helpless souls who at their first coming need a strong 
arm to lean upon." 

Will you tell us something more of Aspiration? "My 
dear child asked for me and wished to be brought where 
she had often come with you and she came with your 
assistance which you rendered unconsciously. You are 
still bound as you were, and what you call death has 
not sundered the tie. Courage and Endurance came 



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to help Aspiration and enabled her to reach this blessed 
height." 

Did she see "INSIGHT"? "Yes; she saw him for 
a moment as she so desired, but she wished to return 
where she belonged, and I was allowed to go with her." 

Has she wished to communicate directly with us? 
"Yes, very often and she has made efforts to do so. 
She wished to comfort him to whom she had been a 
great opportunity and she wants him to know that as 
soon as she is permitted she will help him as she has 
always done. At first, she was so desirous of knowing 
all about those she had loved and left but it would not 
have been well for her, and she was guarded from mak- 
ing the effort she desired and from putting herself into 
the power of those who guard the lower portals." 

Do you mean she wished to return to earth? "Yes; 
she wished to do so, but it was not best for she could 
not distinguish between good and evil in her new sur- 
roundings." 

Did she know we should be able to come to Insight 
again? "She asked, if you came while she was in her 
present condition, that I should tell you that all with 
her was for the very best, and that she is not lost to you 
in any sense but is still your own Isabel." 

Did you know that when we tried to get to Insight 
the other day, we received a communication from some 
one pretending to be you? "Insight explains. I know 
there are many powers who can deceive even the very 
angels and I am not surprised for they are always 
striving to injure those who are seeking the truth." 

Grandmother, are you now always with "INSIGHT" ? 
"Not always for I still have many calls into my old 



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work, and as I go where I desire, I spend much time 
in the spiritual world, but I have the added power of 
carrying with me my own heaven and it still seems that 
Insight is with me, but in a way I cannot make clear 
to you." 

Is father very happy now? "Very happy, but you 
know he has not yet reached the heavenly state and 
he will be kept back from even desiring to go there by 
his wish to be with his children." 

Do you mean his children there or here? "Both!" 

Did Aspiration wish no special message given to her 
husband? "She left the message I have given. She 
desired to return and comfort him and was only deterred 
from doing so by my presence and advice and she will 
wait for him to fulfill his life and work and will help him 
all she is permitted." 

Will she be able later on to communicate personally? 
"You love her too unselfishly to desire anything but 
her good, and you yourselves are saddened by what you 
know of the grief of him whom she would most desire 
to serve." 

Can you tell us anything today of C. C. ? "She 
also came to my child who was so eager to see all those 
she had known in the earth life. She, Representation, 
is still building her city of beautiful souls and is a most 
advanced spirit for her sphere." 

Is this writing as easy without Aspiration? "It is not 
so easy, but it will become so, for you now have help in 
Onward and Solicitude who stand in our midst and make 
one with us." 

We now have to stop. Will you all continue to think 



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of us? "We never lose sight of you, for with us to 
think and desire is to perceive." 

Shall we be able to come to Insight again? "You 
will reach me now ; fear not, for all good shall attend 
you. You must act more and think and desire less. 
That is the word I have for you all. You are more in 
my thoughts than those of my own household for you 
are the little ones of the Master's Kingdom. God be 
with us all and keep us in perfect union." 

COMMUNICATION XVIII. 

INSIGHT: "Many are eager for your coming for 
the spirits in accord with you are curious about your 
doubts and questionings." 

Who are they and why do they feel an interest in 
our questions ? "These spirits are more developed spir- 
itually than yourselves, but not so intellectually." 

Is it well for us to seek these communications which 
after all are only from without, instead of seeking 
knowledge from within? "I shall guard you from go- 
ing beyond the right point. Our meetings in this way 
are not to be many." 

Why is this so? "It is given me just now, to know 
that my great desire is to be fulfilled and I go soon into 
a new universe and a new order of things." 

How does your going coincide with the length of time 
you told us had to be spent in subjective life? "All 
unworthy as I am, such is the will of Him who governs 
always by law and we must always be sure He is right." 

What will be your condition from now until the 
moment of your reincarnation? "My condition now is 



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as you have known it, later I go into repose and obscur- 
ity." 

Shall we never be with you again? "Perhaps our 
bond may be strong enough to overcome the differences 
of state which may not be greater then than now." 

It seems hard to have you slip out of our lives? "All 
real friendships are eternal. Nothing slips out of our 
lives which is really in any state a part of them." 

When you are gone will there not be someone who 
might be our teacher? "There are countless others but 
it will not then be necessary for you. You must cease 
to learn from outside sources and teach to others what 
you know. You will learn all that you really desire. 
Do not depend on me but on the true insight which is 
latent in your own souls." 

How can we develop this insight ? "By never keeping 
truth from the brother." 

Did you not warn us to be discreet and to "give milk 
to babes" ? "Yes ; but babes are plentiful and see that 
they go not hungry. You wish to know how best to 
grow in the inner life. Grow as a tree does which for 
every root sends forth branches and leaves and fruit, 
for all that are sheltered and fed by it." 

Is not the subjective life wholly a life of effects? 
"That is true in a certain way, for what you call causes 
are here in truth effects though they assume such im- 
portance as to seem as if they came of their own voli- 
tion. You think perhaps that my desire for immediate 
reincarnation is a cause ; it is only an effect from many 
lives that lie behind it." 

Why were you so opposed in the beginning of these 
writings to discuss the subject of reincarnation? "It 



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was not necessary and you would do well not to let it 
occupy too much of your thoughts, for by so doing you 
live in the future and the present is the important day 
with you." 

Yes, but it is an intellectual pleasure to know about 
it? "And I am only interested in your spiritual 
growth." 

Why are the spirits you spoke of as being present 
interested in us? "They have attained your spiritual 
standpoint without any development of the reasoning 
powers and they are interested in seeing the truth from 
that point." 

Do all souls in heaven have the same idea of God 
and the same name for Him? "They have the same 
name but each soul mirrors God according to its in- 
dividual purity." 

Is not that what we do here? "You do not change, 
the same laws are everywhere." 

Do the souls in your heaven know of the spiritual 
awakening which seems to be taking place on our earth? 
"Yes, and hence their interest." 

What is causing this spiritual movement ? "It is the 
fulness of time. In the development of humanity there 
comes a time to the whole, as there does to each indi- 
vidual, and the race has come to its birth. We here 
watch and wait as you do for we all are one, and we 
must grow with you into the fulness of the Perfect 
Man. This is what makes it possible for my own new 
birth." 

Has Jesus Christ anything to do with this spiritual 
awakening which is taking place? "Everything; his 
spirit, the Christ, is moving all these souls who are look- 



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ing to him. Do not confound the man with the spirit 
for you are beyond that. To some the man is still 
necessary." 

How does Christ manifest himself to the individual 
soul? "By permeating the soul with his divinity as 
the perfume of a flower permeates the atmosphere in 
which it lives ; when the human soul has extricated it- 
self sufficiently from the bonds in which it must grow 
it lifts its head like a plant above the earth and inhales 
the airs of heaven." 

Courage wishes to know if you will not leave us a 
teacher? "Courage will need no other teacher. She 
must teach instead of being taught. You must all 
draw from the inexhaustible source each has within and 
which is only waiting for your soul's permission to flow 
into a broad river which will overflow and fructify all 
within its reach. I see that you, Discernment, know 
yourself and that you already feel you should not de- 
pend on me for your growth." 

For what things is it permissible to pray? "As the 
Master taught, for all material and all spiritual gifts, 
for all come from the one divine source and there is 
nothing beneath his notice and his knowledge. The 
act of prayer is in accordance with His will and it is 
proper and right for your own growth that you should 
thus recognize the God within and around you. The 
heart's desire is always a prayer; man prays even when 
he sins, for he only does not recognize the God and 
imagines he is acting from himself." 

Is it well to pray for material things, since we do not 
know what we really need? "The desires you call mate- 
rial are only natural and therefore right and it is the 



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motive that makes them sins. If always done with a 
recognition of God all things that are not against the 
brother are right." 

We wish to know if Succor is with us today? "She 
has come to ask what you desire. (Succor) I see you 

wish to know of I . There are many things I 

might tell you of our long talks together in which her 
heart lay before me as an open book. She is still in the 
secret chamber, but before she entered, she said many 
things of those she loved in all worlds and her great 
desire for you whom she had left was that you should 
know more than she felt she did, of the true knowledge. 
She realized that all her life was only those hours when 
she had desired to do the best she could for those 
around her, and she was particularly anxious that her 
example should not have been a drawback to him who 
had been especially given into her keeping. She re- 
gretted that she had not influenced him more in the 
right direction and hoped more than once that no grief 
for her would retard him in the path he understands 
well how to tread." 

Will you tell us something about father? "He is 
growing and always straight toward the light, with his 
present knowledge there will never again be any turn- 
ing aside for him." 

Could you not tell him of these communications be- 
tween us? "He is still too surrounded by your atmos- 
phere. It might be misused by those who must also 
know that we hold this intercourse." 

Who are they? "Such as intercepted you when you 
strove to reach INSIGHT." 

Are they good or bad? "They are both; some most 



134 INSIGHT 

spiritually developed, stay with those souls, and some- 
times lower themselves to their state." 

Can you not tell us something of C C- 



today? "I have not seen her but I can put myself 
into communication with her from this state, by a desire. 
She is always, as you have been told, busy with her 
chosen work and she feels my presence and through me 
yours and is radiant with what she sees of your growth 
toward her. She says you, my child must bring to her 
here all those whom she claimed through you when on 
earth. She says, 'Reflection must become as a little 
child for it is only as such he can enter into the King- 
dom.' " 

How can one become as a little child? "By accept- 
ing the Christ who has come into the world and has laid 
down certain rules of life and conduct by which all 
things become new." 

Have I not tried? "Yes, but do not grow weary. 
The way is long and often dreary, but that is caused by 
past influences, and attainment must come through 
pain and suffering." 

What do you mean by past influences? "What you 
call inherited tendencies and which must be overcome. 
Reflection has known in his existences great truths and 
willfully taught great errors and now his eyes are holden 
from the true light. INSIGHT has been asked to make 
this known to him." 

Can you tell me anything of my last incarnations? 
"You were once the chosen recipient of God's truths, 
but for your own ends you kept them to yourself and 
that error must work out its own bitterness. I see you 
would know where and I am permitted to see that it 



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was in Egypt and as a priest, you had then all the 
knowledge revealed to man, but ambition was your great 
enemy and you did not fulfil your trust." 

What can I do now to repair the past? "You are 
well placed in many things but you must accept now 
from others what was then given to> you, and you must 
become, to do this as a little child, not knowing any- 
thing of yourself." 

Is the suffering I am to undergo mental or physical? 
"Mental suffering in your case ; you experience it now. 
You are working it out at present. Accept the truth 
although you apparently do it at the expense of what 
you call your reason and all will grow peaceful and 
well with you. Your punishment is, that you cannot 
perceive the truth readily ; but 'take it by violence' and 
you will possess its healing powers, before you really 
know it is working in you, for a little leaven leaveneth 
the whole lump. Take Christ and his teachings into 
your life without understanding and determine with all 
your strength and might to obey his commandments 
and one year will make of you a new being. It will be 
difficult but do it." 

Would it be possible for you to tell the others of us, 
of our past incarnations? "You do not need to know 
and I have only by great effort obtained this glimpse 
into the great picture gallery of the past." 

Can you tell us the name of Mrs. C ? 

"Her name is Penetration. She has the capacity to see 
all the possible good in every soul and reach it through 
her knowledge. She is beautiful and her angel has 
come and stands in our midst. She is far advanced and 
is doing her work on a lower plane than the one to which 



136 INSIGHT 

she belongs, as the mother chose to do in the spiritual 
world. Her spiritual name signifies charity, sympathy, 
protection and love." 

When we think of one we love, do the respective 
guardian angels approach each other? "Yes; I only 
see your thought through Endurance who is able to 
stand all this pressure. I mean the guardian angel of 
Endurance who draws all the others into her atmos- 
phere." 

I have often tried to make my guardian angel bear 
you a message. Have you ever received any impression 
from me? "I have had many impressions of you which 
brought me always the thought of green leaves and 
beautiful flowers looking and seeking for the sunlight; 
I have known all your heavenward thoughts, all your 
kind intentions to the brother, and these to us are as 
fruits and flowers in your world." 

Is there anything I can do to help N 1 ? 

"There is but one way. You must walk openly in it 
yourself and he may be induced to follow. You must 
draw truth from the fountain and not from streams 
that are farther from the great source. He who said 
'I am the way, the truth and the life' must enter more 
fully into your life. You are in the right direction but 
you are newly born into the Kingdom and cannot always 
distinguish with your unaccustomed eyes the exact 
way." 

What happens if through ignorance one fails to dis- 
tinguish the true way? "You wander as a child might 
out of the path and must return sometimes through 
sorrow and mortification." 

But I cannot, I must not lose my way ! Tell me how 



INSIGHT 137 

I can be sure to keep in it? "There must be a begin- 
ning to all things. Growth must be slow, for it takes 
place in the cold climate of a soul prone to evil and has 
many drawbacks and I can only repeat what I have al- 
ready said in many ways, do the right and trouble not 
about the doctrine. That is only the top of the house 
of which you are now laying the corner stone. This 
stone must be laid in obscurity and makes no show in 
the building which shall yet rise a stately and beauti- 
ful mansion filled with all whom you love and all the 
beauties you most desire. This is to you all, those of 
you who long for the beautiful things of the Father's 
Kingdom must remember this, as in earthly houses, all 
depends on the strength and honesty of this first work. 
So toil and faint not, and you shall come and bring your 
loved ones with you." 

May we come to you again soon? "Yes ; we will meet 
again, perhaps what you call many times, but to me 
who can see the end that end seems near. We will not 
now be separated long, however, for one will wish to 
come to me whom you will bring." 

COMMUNICATION XIX. 

INSIGHT: "You have come with his spirit who de- 
sired your presence. I mean Pursuit. A spirit who is 
with us and wishes to see things from your plane, he 
is one of us and is interested in the phase of growth in 
which you, as a part of humanity are entering. He 
asks if you perceive things with your intellect, as in his 
time they could only come from the spirit. He means 



138 INSIGHT 

when he lived on your earth such knowledge only came 
from within." 

What causes this difference? "The fulness of time 
has come for the human soul (which is the seat of the 
reasoning powers), to be informed of the spirit; it is 
this that Pursuit desires to look into. He has come to 
the outer door, where your angels stand to listen and to 
learn." 

Is not this a very critical time in the world's history? 
"No more so than have preceded all great changes." 

What will happen to those who come into this knowl- 
edge through their intellect and who fail to live up to it ? 
"Those who will not alter their lives in accordance with 
their light must begin over and over again as man did 
in an earlier stage of development. They will go on 
according to the great law but instead of beginning as 
they might much higher, they will begin where they 
leave off." 

Do you mean they must go back to the very begin- 
ning? "Man never goes back but do you not see the 
opportunity for advancement has been lost and the next 
incarnation begins where this one ends. For those who 
work for righteousness, higher; for those who do not, 
on their present plane." 

Do infants who die lose their chance to progress? 
"Not always ; it is sometimes a reward." 

Do they again enter upon a long period of subjective 
life? "No; they often return soon according to your 
ideas of time, to your plane." 

What happens to them after they die? "They go 
into the lower heaven and are met and cared for by 
the beautiful spirits whose sphere is maternal and they 



INSIGHT 1S9 

are perfectly happy, for they have no recollection of an 
objective existence." 

Is it well for the author of "Light on the Hidden 
Way" to carry out her work of teaching earth bound 
souls? " I see of whom you think. Her work is a 
good one. It is one you all unconsciously perform. 
She has the added sympathy which enables her to do it 
with the knowledge that it is being done. Do you not 
see that the tie embraces even such spirits as Pursuit? 
Not in the same way but you are the means of his being 
with us." 

Did you not once warn us against having anything 
to do with the lower order of spirits? "But they come 
to her for help and the command is to give to those who 
ask. The danger is when you on your plane go to them 
as learners." 

Is the time not coming when the intercourse between 
the two worlds will become much easier? "Yes ; that is 
to be the effect of informing the human reason with 
spiritual strength." 

Why did you consent to inform Reflection of his 
previous incarnation? "Because his improvement is one 
of the chief reasons of these communications." 

Does one's failure to improve opportunities in the 
past make it impossible to attain truth in this life? 
"No ; but it makes it more difficult, for you do not read- 
ily become a pupil, having before been a master." 

How long before the Christian era did Reflection live? 
"I am not well informed, but from what I feel it must 
have been as long before as your present life is after." 

Will you tell me what you can about my past incar- 
nation? "You had great power as a ruler and you let 



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the material side of your nature develop to the injury 
of your real self, but what is more important, to the 
injury of others. If a man lived for himself he could 
soon expiate that mistake by a good life, but the injury 
done to others can only be rectified by good in the same 
proportion done to the brother. No spiritual knowl- 
edge in your present life will avail you ; you must work 
for others and give them what you once withheld and 
only by so doing can you perceive it yourself. You 
are coming gradually to perceive the true light. You 
must make your way through all the lesser lights which 
have enlightened mankind, as I have told you again and 
again. There is but one way — you must come to see 
that and your road will be straight before you." 

Why are you able to tell Reflection so much more 
than the rest of us? "Reflection is specially interest- 
ing to me for I understand his state, having gone 
through some of it myself. Just now I am allowed to 
see many of my past lives for I am soon to assume 
another. This knowledge is permitted if it will be use- 
ful or beneficial to the human soul. 

Then there is hope of my regaining my past knowl- 
edge? "There is more hope for you than there was for 
me, for you live in the dawn of a better era; when I 
was overcoming your state it was in an order of exist- 
ence to which the knowledge of the Christ-life had not 
come." 

Was it in your last incarnation? "No; before that, 
in an almost savage state when nothing really seemed 
developed but my animal nature. I had lived before 
that in a very high state of civilization and lost it all 
by not making use of my opportunities. You, Reflec- 



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tion, have lost by not giving of your former riches. 
Now that the God of humanity is in your world you 
have only to become part of it to regain all." 

Are the same souls ever together in more than one 
objective life? "Yes; it is often the case that the same 
souls are together from first to last. Therefore what 
you call the ties of kinship are more than your minds 
can conceive or understand. Reflection and Endurance 
have been together for many incarnations and you 
have all lived under the same spiritual conditions at the 
same time whether you ever met in the body or not. 
The body that seems so much to you is not really you 
and does not influence these sympathies which lie deeper 
and mean more than any merely physical point of con- 
tact." 

Will you tell us something of Tranquility? "She is 
within the door at which I stand but your desire has 
brought her to you. She is happy to come to you and 
thanks you for the privilege." 

Does she know that you are soon going away? 
"Yes ; and she has been my help and inspiration towards 
that much desired end." 

Could you tell us anything of the world to which 
you are going? "Yes; I am permitted to go to a 
younger and newer universe where I am to see the 
creative powers of God at work and learn of their won- 
ders." 

Is it a planet which we can see? "No; it is not yet in 
a visible condition. I am to see its growth. There are 
many conditions of human life other than the one we 
have known and although the world is to be new the oc- 



142 INSIGHT 

cupants are to be well advanced in their stage of 
growth." 

How can a soul belonging to this system go outside 
of it ? Would that not conflict with the law of gravita- 
tion? "What do we know of the laws you speak of? 
It is to get some understanding of them that I am 
granted this new experience." 

Are we not to occupy the planet Mercury after this 
earth? "I only know of the spiritual state of the next 
world that will succeed yours, but your name for it may 
be right. You, that is the whole of humanity, will go 
into a less material phase of growth and I am to join 
you there again. You are so near my secret that I may 
as well tell you. I go with many to prepare the place 
for you." 

Is it a new world? "It is new in the sense of not be- 
ing fitted for humanity. The future is full of many 
changes. I am so filled now myself with the great work 
I am allowed to take part in, that my thoughts and 
desires do not travel beyond your next abiding place." 

May we not hope to come where you are going? "It 
is not probable, but I cannot say. All things are pos- 
sible to you where you now are and you may be found 
worthy to go even deeper into the mystery of the great 
cause of all we are or can be." 

Can you not tell us today of the symbol of which 
you spoke? "I can tell you if you can perceive it. 
The nearest thing is the face of man. Do you not see 
how the name is written there?" 

Is it a matter of great importance to us to be able 
to perceive that name ? "No ; for if so you would know 
it. All things come to you in the Christ life, and as 



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you are able to perceive its heights and depths all 
things are made clear and easy to you ; although spirit- 
ual knowledge for the first time in the history of hu- 
manity is allowed to come through the exercise of the 
human reason, all things that present themselves to 
that reason are not spiritual, and you must learn to dis- 
tinguish between the two." 

Has Pursuit been interested in our conversation? 
"Very much in what he sees of the way these truths 
reach you through the understanding. You were 
brought for others' uses today and are more blessed than 
usual, all are happier and holier for your coming and 
you will take with you a greater help and incentive to 
do your very best than you have ever done before. We 
all wish to give you, our God be with you, and Tranquil- 
ity leaves you her sweet and peaceful influences which 
are more than I can give you." 

COMMUNICATION XX. 

Present: Endurance and Discernment. 

"May I be allowed to aid you ? I was to do so if you 
came ; I am Tranquility — Insight is engaged in medita- 
tion just now and the spiritual state that I represent 
always guards his threshold." 

Did Insight ask you to receive us? "Yes; he wishes 
you always to find what you seek, for, he says these 
times are not to be for long." 

Did you hear our argument with Reflection this 
morning? "I now see your thought. Do not argue, 
nothing is gained that way ; live the life ; that is what 



144 INSIGHT 

he can best understand. You can effect all things and 
your feminine natures are necessary to him as I am 
even to one so wise and great as our good teacher." 

(Something about the relation of sex; exact question 
lost). "God who contains in Himself all that is woman 
and all that is man wishes each man and each woman to 
become one whole after the fashion of His own nature. 
That is the basis and the cause of the great attraction 
between the sexes. It is two parts desiring to become as 
they once were, one." 

Do the two parts that belong together always meet 
on this earth? "If they do not they will surely in the 
great hereafter and the two that are joined on your 
plane are often a preparation for that final union. 
One of the greatest mysteries in humanity is prefigured 
in the marriage tie and hence its great importance even 
on your plane. In the adjustment that each true soul 
tries to make between herself and the other one brought 
into such close connection is laid the groundwork for the 
final marriage of that soul with the great Source to 
which we are all going. I see that you understand." 

Do you know that INSIGHT is going to change his 
present condition ? "Yes ; I know that in the near 
future he leaves us, but it is only in accordance with 
his stage of growth and we and he could be no longer 
necessary to each other." 

It seems hard that those who love each other must 
always be separated? "Do not misunderstand for I see 
you do acquiesce as I do in God's law, and that neither 
of us consider it unimportant. Do you not still possess 
those who are on this side of your material world; so 
with me, I shall still possess the good Insight and shall 



INSIGHT 145 

hope to meet him again and again ; we only occupy dif- 
ferent rooms in the Father's house when we go to do His 
work or take the rest He gives us, and we are not sep- 
arated in His thought and that is the true union." 

Will you tell us what the music of the spheres is? 
"The perfect union of creation with God's will." 

Can one hear it ? "Music is harmony and the melody 
is only audible to those who are also in that union or 
harmony. What you, Discernment, hear is the music 
that comes from the harmony you have attained with 
the perfect union and might be called the music of the 
spheres for you too are a sphere and contain within 
yourself all creation." 

Please explain this ? "As in the material world plan- 
ets are thrown off from a great centre so in the spirit- 
ual, souls are thrown off from the One Soul and each 
takes the shape of its first Great Cause and in its turn 
will itself become the centre of a great system as you 
each are now." 

Do you mean all humanity? I mean you two. 
You are- further progressed than you know, every soul 
is not ready to give light to others." 

But we are very ignorant and unprogressed? "You 
are right and you are wrong. In regard to humanity 
at large you are as I have said, a Sun ; in regard to the 
real Sun, you are not even formed. Knowing is not the 
only condition, opening the windows of desire is neces- 
sary and without knowledge, without volition on your 
part the real Sun illumines your soul, I who see from a 
spiritual plane can see that you have that desire and I 
also understand that you both need this encourage- 
ment," 



146 INSIGHT 

How can we be sure of beholding this spiritual light 
in the soul? "Do not send up clouds of self to obscure 
it, once clearly understand that the Sun is still there 
and is eternal and that the clouds are transitory and 
you will strive more and more intelligently to keep your 
atmosphere clear and clean to receive the divine rays. 
Desire is one of the surest signs of the new birth and 
I see you are struggling to be born out of the womb of 
self and live in the true world which lies without as 
your world lies without to an unborn child. This new 
life is born as a child is, in its mother's womb; before 
it comes into your world it has life; only a woman 
knows of herself the movement of this unborn man, so 
the Christ causes the movements in the human soul; 
each soul goes through that quickening for itself." 

Can you hear what we say to each other as we discuss 
your words? "Not hear as you understand it but I 
perceive through your angels." 

Are they with you ? "Yes ; I have met them on the 
threshold which I am guarding for INlSIGHT." 

May we not sometimes come to you when INSIGHT 
has gone? "If it is considered well. Insight will leave 
his commands and we, you as well as I, will obey." 

Did Insight expect to leave his present state so soon? 
"It was unexpected for in his humility he did not sup- 
pose himself worthy for many many years as you count 
time to attain his desire." 

Will the form he assumes be just like ours? "I should 
not think like yours, but he can tell you of that better 
than I for I think he has been informed. My spiritual 
condition is not a curious one and I rest calmly in what 
is given me without desiring more knowledge." 



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Is grandmother with you ? "Yes ; she is within and 
she needs to be with me for she is not restful in her ac- 
tive desire to do for others, and I bring to her the at- 
mosphere in which she rests." 

Can we see her? "She has come to us." 

Are you very happy to be with Tranquility? "So 
restful and so happy, my child, that I begin to compre- 
hend the peacefulness beyond understanding." 

Will you tell us of those we love? "All is as it should 
be. The divine law is working there in its perfectness 
on that plane which is above yours, but much below 
what I find in this beautiful home." 

What is the cause of the difference? "The Divine 
will is always the same, but the power to receive it dif- 
fers, and it can only work in conjunction with the 
human will." 

Ought we not to struggle to utterly give up our 
own will to God? "It is the pearl of great price spoken 
of by the Master and all other things are but as dross 
in comparison with its attainments." 

How can we be sure that all things are God's will, 
we bring many on ourselves ? "That is true. It is not 
God's will that evil should exist and that is the meaning 
of the prayer to be delivered from evil. When you 
pray not to be led into temptation you are recognizing 
the perfect freedom of the God within you, to live if it 
chooses in real and entire disloyalty to the only true 
God. All things are in God and what you call evil is 
only good misunderstood and misapplied. Insight has 
lately taught me this. Even here we are free to sin if 
we choose, and our capacity to sin is as much greater 



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than yours as our spiritual attainment is higher. This 
is Tranquility who speaks." 

The free choice is the really important thing, is it 
not? "The choice is the foundation of all growth. 
Discernment sees — the motive is all, the act counts for 
nothing." 

Can you make mistakes in your present condition? 
"Many, as many as you do, to those who are more wise 
than we." 

Can those mistakes injure others? "In this state it 
is provided that they only act on ourselves. Our per- 
sonality is more in subjection and we cannot intrude on 
others unless they are like minded, and in our own con- 
dition. It is our likemindedness, that makes this inter- 
course possible." 

You once spoke of your "family life in one house- 
hold" will you tell us something about it ? "Yes ; we 
have our hours of social intercourse, our meals together 
and our times of conversation, and when the Lord is 
visible to one, he is to all of us, which is the cause and 
source of our union." 

How is the Lord visible to you? "In our best hours 
Christ assumes to our spiritual eyes a real presence as 
if a spirit stood in your midst and you saw him, and 
then all our souls are conscious of being one soul and 
our bliss is inexpressible. There are no words by which 
I can express it to you. Have you not with one whom 
you most loved been moved by a great thought or a 
beautiful scene, till words were needless? So with us, 
when the Lord comes to us we have no need of words 
for we are one in him and he in us. It is more than I 
can explain. Think about it, it will bring you very 



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near him and some glimpse of it will penetrate your 
soul for you are both near enough to him to come into 
his visible presence." 

Can we indeed see Christ in this life? "Spiritually 
you can ; do not expect to do so with your material 
senses, but you may reach to us if you choose, for the 
time has come for you where you now are and to some 
souls this has been given and it will be to others." 

You spoke of your meals together, will you explain 
this? "In a spiritual sense we have our food given to 
us and it is after these meals well digested that we have 
the vision of the Christ. All things with you are shad- 
ows, and as the appropriation of food is necessary to 
your physical growth, so the appropriation of truth is 
necessary to our spiritual growth, and truth always 
turns to love which is Christ as food turns to blood with 
you which is life." 

Does the vision of Christ appear to you as Jesus? 
"In his spiritual body, for as Christ represented hu- 
manity on earth he still comes to us in bodies like our 
own in heaven." 

Will our spiritual bodies resemble those we now have? 
"Yes ; so much so that you will know your own when you 
see them ; even we are told in the highest heaven at 
the very steps of the throne which shall be inaccessible 
to mankind." 

We shall now have to leave you. We thank you for 
all you have given us. "I also thank you. Your 
questions are so interesting to me and I understand you 
so well that we seem to come into perfect accord and 
you too must feel it or I should not perceive your pres- 
ence. I see you must go. God be with you." 



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COMMUNICATION XXI. 

INSIGHT: "You are welcome. I do not wish you to 
think I am ever out of sympathy with your question- 
ings or your desires, but they must reach a certain 
spiritual plane before I can perceive them, hence they 
seem to you not to be answered at once. I am answer- 
ing a thought I see in the mind of Endurance. Endur- 
ance thinks I have failed sometimes at first to answer 
and then later have changed my mind. This is not so, 
for as soon as the inquiry is not mere intellectual curi- 
osity the answer comes to you." 

Would it be possible for you to tell us a thing of 
which Endurance was entirely ignorant? "Yes; but 
not a thing she was incapable of understanding for her 
mind is the instrument used. I can see what she per- 
ceives spiritually." 

But suppose she misapprehends a truth? "Then I 
do not perceive the error, but the other side of which 
the error is the shadow." 

Then you can only teach us what Endurance knows? 
"That is not the idea I wish to convey to you. An in- 
strument is not the music of which it is capable, but 
only the means by which the performer expresses what 
he feels." 

Are we wrong in thinking you have sometimes been a 
little evasive with us? "Not in the sense you mean. 
When I could not perceive a glimmer of the spiritual 
or real meaning of the subject on which you were curi- 
ous, I waited until you developed that meaning and then 
gave it form for your instruction." 

In the beginning of these writings you did not wish 



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to discuss the subject of reincarnation with us? "I did 
not for at first none of you had risen in the least degree 
to its real use in the human development and it was only 
interesting to you as a scientific fact. Now you see 
that all things rest upon it as on a sure foundation. It 
was better for your growth that you should develop 
this yourselves instead of receiving it from me." 

Does suffering one has to endure injure those who 
are associated with him? "Not if you receive it in the 
right spirit and bear it in the secret chamber of your 
soul as you must do to reap the intended benefit. That 
suffering is to be principally your great desire for 
truth and light and your inability to perceive them. 
As your mistakes were not on a physical plane so* your 
sufferings, as a consequence will not be. You kept 
spiritual light away from others, but at the same time 
you gave with great generosity of your material riches. 
He who giveth plentifully in any field shall also reap 
plentifully. That is what is meant by the word, 'As a 
man soweth so shall he reap.' " 

Then I do not make others suffer for my shortcom- 
ings? "They can only suffer, as they do, by your 
poverty in spiritual things ; if you could give to those 
you love what you once withheld, they would be rich in- 
deed with the truest of all riches." 

I am then very wanting in spirituality? "Not in 
any way wanting, what was once there is there still, 
but you do not let in on it the true Light that has come 
into the world." 

Why do you think so? "I do not perceive that you 
are in the right attitude. You can never with your 
nature be indifferent to spiritual things, but you can- 



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not, as I have said, accept anyone as a teacher. I have 
been allowed to stand toward you in that capacity, but 
you do not as yet see things as the others do from my 
standpoint." 

How did I get those truths formerly? "Your other 
life was so different from the life you lead now, in all its 
conditions that you can hardly understand that in those 
days the command of the physical forces of nature 
stood to man as spiritual insight does now." 

How has humanity become fitted to receive the spirit 
of Christ? "The preparation to receive it has come 
through long ages of development. \~Now in your pres- 
ent life man is ready for the Christ life." 

Is conscience a development? "Conscience as it 
stands is the result of these many lives I have referred 
to. A man's conscience is the result of his education 
which has been going on through all these different 
stages of his growth. Hence one man's virtues come 
to be another more developed man's sins." 

Then conscience depends on the amount of experi- 
ence one has had ? "Not on the amount, but on the use 
that has been made of it. Quantity goes for nothing 
in spiritual mathematics. At this time more than ever 
before man is coming into possession of his reasoning 
powers, for the spirit has informed them and he is no 
longer walking blindly ; before the spirit entered the 
human soul, man used his reason for the investigation 
of material things, but now, he is beginning to see 
that under all these physical manifestations lie the 
spirits of creation and as he perceives, he understands 
that true knowledge does not consist of what he sees 
but of something that will come to him later." 



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I wish to know something of these spirits of crea- 
tion? "And you will know as your reason becomes 
more spiritualized. This is one of the things I cannot 
tell you of, until you are ready to receive it. Man has 
an idea that all force comes from one source and he 
gives this force many names, the true name is still hid 
from him." 

Is it not all God ? "You have the idea I mean, and it 
is the true one that all visible force is only a division 
of one great and central force. You call it in one 
school of thought, fire, heat, electricity, but these are 
only different manifestations of the same thing. God 
is the only source, but these spirits that underlie all 
manifestations are like heat, light, and others, differ- 
ent parts of God." 

Are these forces conscious individualities? "They 
are, for the difference between God's parts and nature's 
parts is that every atom of spirit has a distinct and 
individual consciousness." 

What are the Elohim? "They are what have from 
the very first been given man to know of the Great 
First Cause." 

Shall you have a material form when you go into 
the new world of which you told us? "There are many 
degrees of what you call matter. It is necessary in 
coming in contact with anything like matter that the 
spirit should have a covering and that covering is al- 
ways after the same form or material as the world in 
which it works." 

Is the world you are going to like ours? "I do not 
myself know, but it is more spiritual than your earth, 
for I am told I am not to make the descent that I 



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should be obliged to do from my present place if I came 
to your earth." 

Will time exist there? "I am sure time in some form 
will always exist for creation, for where there is sensa- 
tion there must be time." 

Will you forget all the knowledge you now possess? 
"I shall retain all that is necessary for my business in 
that world as is the case in all rebirths." 

Do you go through a process analogous to death 
before you enter that life? "No; but I shall pass 
through a period of rest and obscurity for that is es- 
sential to all such changes, why, I do not know, but 
the law on your earth in regard to birth is the same we 
are taught to the very end." 

Will you be in full possession of all your present 
powers? "With my full faculties, but not as latent as 
they are with you, more ready for immediate use." 

You must have acquired all your present knowledge 
in heaven, as you were only an ignorant monk in your 
last life on earth? "No; not at all, my position as a 
poor monk was as necessary for my fitness for my 
present plane as any other of my many lives for I was 
then touching life at a point with which I had never 
before been brought in contact." 

Can you now remember other of your past lives? 
"Yes ; I am allowed to know of many of them and I am 
possessed of all the powers developed in them all." 

How were you instructed of your approaching change 
of state? "My instructions were from an Insight who 
is to my mind what I am to you, but intuition enables 
me to perceive and appropriate these instructions as 
your perceptions do you. Can you not remember a 



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time when what I now communicate to you so easily 
would have been like speaking to you all in an unknown 
tongue? Now I perceive it comes to you without let or 
hindrance, hence my delight in the intercourse. This 
is as much a part of our growth as it is of yours and 
the pleasure we take in being together is equally shared 
by me." 

Does this intercourse seem as phenomenal to you as it 
does to us? "It is unusual to me as it is to you, and I 
am allowed it as a preparation for the teaching I shall 
soon both give and receive." 

Has Pursuit been benefited by these teachings? 
"Pursuit was willing to be taught from your standpoint 
for he was deterred from making progress until he 
could educate the faculties of his reason. You are 
giving him great help. He is with us today, and is 
desirous of knowing all we speak of. He is one of many 
who share in these teachings and each one is dear to me 
as a part of the great whole which goes on its way to- 
wards God." 

Do you know whether the Theosophical Society will 
help the spread of spiritual truth? "All light helps 
and there are some mind's that can only reflect the light 
you speak of. Others more fortunate are able to reflect 
the greater light. All light is the one spark which God 
struck off from Himself in the beginning of what we 
call creation. The light exists always but age after 
age man wakes to the consciousness of it, it is not that 
the light is greater now, but the consciousness of it is 
clearer and, as the age of which you form part goes 
on, this consciousness will grow brighter and brighter." 

Do you get a better idea of God where you are than 



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is possible here? "I get perhaps a clearer idea, as you 
see the sun better on a cloudless day. but God must be 
forever unmanifested. His works are the things that 
must be God's manifestation for us, and not till many 
ages will we be able to see even what we now perceive ex- 
cept through a glass darkly." 

Could you tell us how you think of God when you 
pray to Him? "I pray to the Father, that is as far 
toward the infinite as my mind can penetrate, but I do 
it with the thought that behind that idea lies the un- 
thinkable idea of God that cannot be understood. Father 
to our minds includes all that we can think of as Cre- 
ator and Protector and it is only in those relations 
that we stand toward Him." 

Did you hear of our interview with Tranquility? 
"She has spoken to me of your coming and you could 
not be with her without finding it beautiful; without 
her I should have no lock to my door, for that door can 
never be shut in the face of any questioning soul." 

Onward desires to know if Succor is here? "Yes; 
she is here and her love and her thoughts were with 
Onward, for she has promised him who was Onward' s 
succor all through her life to comfort and love her." 

Will she tell us of father? "There is nothing to tell 
except in the words I have used before; he goes on in 
his work, those who are with him grow in the good soil ; 
he provides for them good intentions and he is, as you 
have ever known him, the embodiment of law and order." 

Have you anything new to tell us of I ? "Noth- 
ing. Her birth will not be as quickly made as if she 
had come with pure desires into our world, but it also 
follows the wise course laid down for every case, no 



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matter how diverse, and we cannot force the growth." 

Is her state one of .unconsciousness? "No, of intense 
consciousness, for she is now growing out of the shell 
in which her soul had lain so long and there can be no 
growth without feeling. You do not perceive it, but 
all things have a knowledge of their being each after its 
kind, the flowers after theirs ; animals after theirs ; 
humanity on its plane and the human soul in the spir- 
itual world after its higher and more intense capacity. 
It is Tranquility to whom Succor has appealed for this. 
Succor does not think on these levels of thought, but 
all thought with us is visible and she saw that I could 
make it clear to you." 

Shall we not find Insight still in heaven when we 
reach the spiritual world, and if so, can we go to 
him? Insight: "That I do not know, but when you do, 
these communications will be resumed between us, for 
we shall still be one and there and here will not matter 
so much to us then as they do now." 

Shall we not be able to go to Tranquility even if you 
are not there? "When you are in a state to desire 
her she will be visible to you, but perhaps when you 
first come into the spiritual world, you will be too much 
occupied with your new surroundings to desire her, 
all will be depend on state." 

Can one go through the spiritual world without 
stopping? "Yes; if you leave all your earthly cover- 
ings behind you it is quite possible, but that is not often 
the case, but it is merely a dressing room and ante-room 
to the real house that is prepared for you." 

Why has father lingered there so long? "He has 
not been there long and in his case he has stopped, as 



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you would to help another to put on the necessary gar- 
ment or rather to put off the soiled one of earth." 

Do some souls remain always in that world? "Yes; 
because the earthly attractions are stronger than the 
heavenly and each soul gravitates to its loves and de- 
sires." 

Does a miser continue to prize money? "Yes; and 
to his eyes money is the one object there, as it has 
been on earth, and it seems as real to him as it ever did 
there. You must remember that each soul makes a 
state or place for itself and only souls of like loves 
are visible to it. So in the spiritual world there are 
many circles, more than in yours where so many things 
are not real but only seeming." 

Is there any danger in communicating high spiritual 
truths to those who can only understand them intellec- 
tually? "There is sometimes, but not often for truth 
undiscerned is as if it did not exist and does neither 
harm nor good. Do not force the growth, to some 
souls truth comes in a purely subjective form, all do 
not belong to the understanding. I mean it reaches 
them in a purely spiritual way. Those persons for in- 
stance believe as you do in an endless life but they do 
not see it understandingly divided into many lives, 
sometimes material, sometimes spiritual, and it is not 
necessary they should see it if their growth could go on 
under such difficulties." 

We wish to send our love to all who form this chain 
and to thank you, for we must now say good-bye for 
today. "Yes ; for my instrument is getting out of 
tune and it is difficult for Endurance to perceive what 
I wish to say. Love is the bond that holds and en- 



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circles us all and we accept your acknowledgment of it 
with grateful hearts." 

COMMUNICATION 1 XXII. 

INSIGHT: "Your coming completes the circle of 
souls from every sphere below mine; some have come 
from all the worlds to listen and to learn. As you are 
the youngest the questions must come from you, for 
all will understand you but you could not understand 
from their point of view." 

Have you other instruments in this world whom you 
could use as you do Endurance ? "I have none to whom 
I communicate in just this way, but I have many whom I 
teach," 

How? "Some have their spiritual eyes open, others 
their spiritual senses of many kinds." 

Do the wicked cease from troubling others when 
they go to the spiritual world? "They trouble all 
who are in their spiritual state and many of the dis- 
turbances in both worlds come from their evil influence. 
In your world the innocent suffer apparently with the 
guilty and the bad influences of which I speak often 
affect those who are not in spiritual sympathy with 
them, because in your world the tares are to grow with 
the wheat until the harvest." 

When is the harvest to be? "Not for many, many 
generations, humanity must be ripened as a whole be- 
fore it can be gathered in ; you do not harvest one sheaf 
of wheat." 

Did the Holy Spirit come into the world for the first 
time when Jesus gave it to his disciples? "If it had 



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not been in the world before nothing could have ex- 
isted, all things have life in proportion as they have 
this spirit. Till then, however, it had not informed 
the reasoning faculties of humanity and Christ spoke 
of it as coming anew because mankind for the first time 
was then to have a conscious knowledge of possessing 
it." 

Did not Abraham, Moses and the prophets have it? 
"They represented a certain order of men who had 
this knowledge but now it was to be an open secret. 
Spiritual things grow slowly and the germ only was 
planted in the days that Jesus spoke. Now it is 
growing, you know how slowly ; mankind had had this 
knowledge many times, but has lost it, many of the 
great names stand for one of those ages, but with 
this last revelation there has come a new force into 
your world; before it was an idea, — Jesus made it a 
life." 

Is Jesus Christ a type of a life and has any other 
human being attained to it? "Yes; he is a possibility 
for every human life, none have attained to his per- 
fection, but some great souls have come very near him." 

Has the soul to be perfected in objective life? "It 
grows more rapidly in the spiritual life than it can in 
your denser atmosphere, but the body is the soil of 
the soul as the soul is of the spirit." 

What is the immaculate conception as applied to the 
individual soul? "The birth of this spirit, and it is 
called immaculate because the body cannot assist in 
its conception. The Father must be God; in all other 
things in your sphere the body bears its part but in this 
it must stand aside. I have learned that in the harvest 



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the body even will partake of this spirit and then there 
will be no more death. I mean the body that humanity 
will then have grown worthy to receive; many rounds 
of life and death and rebirth must occur before that 
day is ushered in." 

We were told of a communication from a soul who 
said he had been a hundred years in the spiritual world. 
Are there many who remain there so long? "Yes; 
there are many such, as I have explained, the soul 
never loses its freedom and the state you speak of is 
what you mean by hell." 

Are souls forced to stay there? "No; they stay 
because they are happiest there." 

Is that the only hell there is? "Is not that enough, 
to stay in willful and happy indifference to law." 

What will come to such a soul in the future? "I 
cannot speak of an individual, for at any time he may 
leave his state and begin to improve, but if a soul does 
not do so when its time of rebirth arrives, it gravitates 
into a state of matter that corresponds to its spiritual 
ignorance and disobedience." 

When does the impulse ever come to that soul to 
turn towards good? "Perhaps in that very new birth 
it may find the impulse because we are taught they are 
always on the ascending round, no soul that has at- 
tained the human is ever without the spark of divine 
life, and that grows in the poorest soil." 

Are there not few who are lost? "There are none 
of our generation because we cannot be lost, till we 
are finally gathered in." 

What did Jesus mean by saying, "Lest they hear 
with their ears and be saved," etc. "He meant that 



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they were not yet ready for his great truths and as 
he taught it was not well to cast pearls before swine. 
He could not have meant that they should not be 
saved for his mission was to seek and to save that which 
was lost, and by lost he meant the Divine spark which 
was lost in the material life of each man. How is it 
possible that the Father does not know where each 
child is and that He does not go out to bring him in 
to the heavenly rest?" 

What is the meaning of many being called and few 
chosen? "It means that the possibility lies within each 
man to come to the knowledge of the truth each time 
he descends into your life, but as he does not, he is 
spoken of as not being chosen, which does not mean 
that God makes an arbitrary choice, but that the life 
is not sufficiently developed to make the choice per- 
ceptible. There is what you call forever, before 
them, for with God a day is as a thousand years and 
nothing seems long or short in His eyes." 

Is it wrong to pray for material things? "Do you 
think that anything that exists through God's per- 
mission is beneath His notice? He has given His angels 
charge lest at any time you dash your foot against a 
stone and as the foot is the lowest part of your phy- 
sical body by that is included all and everything you 
may desire." 

Then we may pray for everything? "Do not pray 
to the detriment of the brother, but all outside of that 
is right for man was told to possess the earth and it is 
his title and right so to do. You are taught by the 
Master however to pray first for the Spirit of God 
and then all things shall be added unto you." 



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Is all prayer answered? "Do you not possess a thing 
if you are no longer conscious of needing it? Some 
prayers are answered in this way. You no longer 
desire things that seemed to you good after the spirit 
has informed the human soul and showed you their 
proper relations and value. Prayer is the breath of 
the spirit and living in a good atmosphere is the first 
necessity to any kind of life." 

Is it possible to pass through the spiritual world 
without stopping? "Yes, if the desire is more than 
a sentiment, you will rise to your spiritual level when 
you are freed from the body and you would find here 
that you could only be happy where you belonged." 

Who gives you the power to give us this knowledge 
and is it right? "The power is given me by a greater 
than I, and I shall do nothing that was not in con- 
formity with what I am told is right and best for you 
and me. To teach is my great pleasure and my highest 
reward and I am repaid by the faces of your angels 
which show me the growth of your souls under my in- 
struction." 

How can I get the power to heal sickness and 
pain? "By bringing yourself into closer relations 
with the Source of life and health and by keep- 
ing your own body in a perfect state of well being, for 
health, both physical and spiritual, is as contagious 
as disease and a good life is more important than all 
the dogma that has been taught since the beginning 
of man's moral consciousness. The cure you are think- 
ing of contains a great truth and is the beginning of 
a better understanding of the condition into which man 
has brought his body, by the fall. Do you not see that 



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matter cannot improve spirit, but spirit can improve 
matter, the soul is free and can bring itself into false 
relations to its source and the body it has evolved takes 
its disease and malformation." 

Can both evil and good spirituality exist in the same 
individual? "Yes; you can receive both sunshine and 
shadow on the same surface. A soul informed of the 
spirit may not turn entirely away from the true source 
of all good but it may be half in the shadow if it so 
wills and the body suffers in consequence." 

Does anything of value ever come to us in dreams? 
"Yes ; often, for it is only necessary for some souls 
to hold the body in subjection in order to see things in 
their true light." 

How can one be sure to keep the body in subjection? 
"I do not know how one can always bring that about, 
it depends on so many conditions that stretch all the 
way from earth to heaven." 

Are we ever with you in our sleeping moments ? "Yes ; 
both in your sleeping and your waking moments. We 
are never separated when any one of us is thinking of 
a good deed or is filled with love to God or man. As 
I have explained I am honored by forming a part of the 
channel that flows to you." 

How is it that we are found worthy to have this 
knowledge given us? "No one is worthy unless he so 
wills it and to him who so wills all things belong. All 
things in heaven and earth are yours and you have 
but to walk in and take possession." 

The will seems to be a divine quality? "The will is 
the God within you and you are the emanation of His 



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will and in returning to Him you must ascend through 
all He has created in His entire universe." 

How can we will effectually? "By following the life 
of Christ. He has been given as an example. God 
provides for all He has created and this spirit which 
has been in the world since man was worthy to receive 
it is the medium or atmosphere in which the immortal 
part must grow and become perfected." 

Would it be possible for us to receive a message 
from C. C. today? "The one of whom you speak is with 
us. She has come from her world to see what you de- 
sire of me for here we guage the spiritual condition by 
the desires." 

Is she satisfied with what she sees of our condition? 
"Yes ; she is satisfied but she is not a soul to be satis- 
fied except with the utmost she sees possible." 

Can she hear what we say? "She cannot hear you, 
but she has been speaking with your angel and has been 
told of all your aspirations and of your desire to hold 
this communion with her." 

Is the heaven in which you are very full of souls? 
"Yes ; because we occupy the first stepping stone to 
the mansion we are trying to enter and all souls come 
to us as soon as they are thoroughly unclothed and 
then all infants come without waiting to rid themselves 
of earth stains, and so our world is always filled with 
new arrivals." 

How do you accomplish this writing? "I am not 
writing directly. I am writing as Succor does through 
Insight, who stands near and sees my thoughts as they 
are formed as readily as you hear each other's spoken 
words. I have come through his permission to this 



166 INSIGHT 

meeting of many souls and many spirits who are indeed 
blessed in such a teacher and it is through you that 
I am here, as it is partly through me that you have 
attained this blessing." 

Are there both souls and spirits present and what is 
the difference? "You are souls, we are all souls in a 
certain way for our human soul is still with us in my 
heaven though in the higher one it is dropped." 

Then you, Insight, have no soul? "I have laid it 
aside as you would a garment for here I do not need 
it. My human soul I can take or leave as I will ; in my 
best estate I do not need it; as you require no warm 
garments when near the fire on your earth, so I need 
no human covering when basking in the sunlight of this 
land." 

It is your spiritual soul you possess, is it not? "Yes ; 
in my best moments such as now when I am in accord 
with the many links that make up this meeting, it is the 
Christ soul; when I come into a lower state, even here, 
I put on my human soul. Do you not understand how 
you become outside of your earthly body even on your 
earth? Often some great emotion carries you out of 
it and then in sleep and in dreams you leave your 
body and go into states where that material form 
could not pass." 

Could not the human soul pass ? "Yes ; the human 
soul takes you ; by you I mean your spirit." 

Insight, we hope you will not go away finally, without 
telling us and bidding us good-bye. "It shall be as 
you desire. There shall be no real parting for we must 
try and put ourselves into the condition to understand 
there is no parting between souls in accord and though 



INSIGHT 167 

you are working on one part of the building and I on 
another, we are all doing the will of the Master Builder." 
Will we be able to reach you in your new state? "If 
it is well, do not desire to know of the then; when it 
comes it will be the now." 

Are you an Adept, INSIGHT? "I see the thought 
in your mind. I do understand many things that you 
are not yet ready to receive, but it is not because I 
am more worthy, only because I am farther on and we 
are all coming to that point — I mean all humanity." 
Will you give our love and our thanks to all who 
make up our circle? "They are in perfect accord in 
receiving your message. I wish it were possible for 
you to know all that has been asked and answered in 
this class of which you are the little ones, and conse- 
quently the best beloved." 

May we come to you again soon? "Whenever some 
new difficulty stands in the way of your growth come 
to me, and I will try and let in the light. The light is 
always there. Take this for a last comforting word, 
that it never changes or grows less and all things will 
with that thought seem possible to you. God be with 
you." 

COMMUNICATION XXIII. 

PRESENT I ENDURANCE, DISCERNMENT. 

INSIGHT : "You have come without your circle, but 
it is well, for the promise is to two or three, and I am 
always glad to teach or help, or sympathize with you, 
as you may desire." 



168 INSIGHT 

Does there not come a time in spiritual development 
when it is not only well, but necessary to "force the 
growth"? "Not in your present condition, or rather I 
mean your present stage of progression. There is 
something you cannot perceive, and you must patiently 
wait." 

Ought one not to strive continually, lest in waiting 
the golden opportunity be lost ? "Yes ; you must never 
cease striving, but that is not what I mean, you can- 
not see results : when you give water to a plant, you 
know it is necessary, but you cannot see how it affects 
the growth. As in natural things, so in spiritual." 

I have read that at a certain time in the soul's de- 
velopment it is important one should pursue a certain 
system, which will unite the soul with its higher prin- 
ciple. "I do not think that is true as you understand 
it. Some have reached the point where heaven and 
Christ break on them, as if by violence, that is, suddenly, 
but it is all according to a great law. 'First the blade, 
then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear;' it 
cannot come but in accordance with previous prepara- 
tion, of which the soul was unconscious, as you now 
are, of your growth." 

Must everything come by the slow and gradual 
process of growth? "Everything but the desire, which 
is the Divine Will in action. All else must come of 
this law, but the desire must come from within, that is 
your part of the work. You cannot check the growth 
if the conditions are right, and wherever this divine 
desire leads you, you must follow." 

Is there no danger of mistaking one's own will for 
this desire? "Not if you first have kept the commands ; 






INSIGHT 169 

you are then in a state to distinguish the real from the 
false, and you have now reached that condition. Do 
not understand that therefore you are not tempted, for 
alas that never leaves us till the very end." 

What is the "Dweller on the Threshold"? "He who 
has passed to the open door, finds himself confronted 
with a new enemy, who being spiritual, is more powerful 
than any material temptation, and therefore many stop 
and go no farther." 

Do you mean, they go no farther during that par- 
ticular incarnation ? "Yes ; and to some poor timid 
souls, many lives are necessary, before the strength 
comes." 

Shall we have to meet this "Dweller on the Threshold" ? 
"You are already face to face with him: both of you 
are at the door which stands open for you. If you 
were within you could enter with me where tranquility 
reigns, and be at peace." 

It seems to us now, we have never been so peaceful. 
"There is always a calm before the storm. You have 
both fought well to reach your present place, and are 
enjoying the rest which the Father is ever ready to give 
to His tired children." 

We do not feel that we have struggled as we ought. 
"Do not be unjust to yourselves. You are conscious 
of your past growth, for the things of your spiritual 
childhood no longer allure or satisfy you." 

Do some meet and vanquish the "Dweller on the 
Threshold" in this life? "Yes: many. You have just 
been told to strive, but you are now gathering strength 
for the battle: and when that evil one sees you come, 
with the strength of the Christ Life, which is now 



170 INSIGHT 

growing in obscurity and darkness, within your soul, 
he is already vanquished, and you enter in without the 
knowledge that he has stood in your way. Those who 
have found evil so visible on their way have come, hav- 
ing vanquished their material wrong-doing, but having 
no knowledge of the Christ who is the true and only 
way: many aspire to enter in, but have not found the 
way, and these are the ones who are trying, as the 
Master said, to 'climb up by some other way.' Many 
desire to enter, who will not believe, that the path lies 
through the teaching of Jesus and these encounter the 
enemy in all his strength." 

You seldom use the term Jesus. Was it accidental 
in this instance? "There are no accidents with you 
and me. I speak of Jesus, because it was through his 
human life that the Christ spoke." 

What is the "Divine Sophia"? It is the wisdom 
that made the world and which is drawing it back 
through love to its divine Source. Do you not see that 
in the case of those of whom we have just spoken they 
needed to accept the knowledge before they could pass 
the threshold?" 

How does this wisdom manifest itself to the indi- 
vidual soul? "Its lowest manifestation is seen in the 
lowest orders of creation. It is higher in the animal, 
and first comes in its fullness to the human soul. It is 
latent in all humanity, but some souls are not ready 
for its appearance above the soil, and I do not know 
how it is first manifested. 'The wind bloweth where it 
listeth.' Read what the Master said." 

Is it our part to prepare the soil for this Divine Life? 
"The soil has already been prepared; when man at- 



INSIGHT 171 

tains his human soul and even more, the germ of the 
Divine Life is planted, but there are many, many lives 
necessary for this seed to appear. The germination 
of the seed takes place often in one life, and is visible, 
when the soul again takes on a body on your earth." 

Is it not right for us to try any and all processes 
to develop the soul, if we keep Christ in view? "Yes; 
all things that hold Christ always in view, and take him 
as an example, are not only right, but necessary." 

Is it right to meditate on the letters of the word "Je- 
hovah"? "Each soul is as distinct from any other 
soul, as God himself, and must find out its own way: 
and if that process is a help to you, do not despise it. 
I write this for Endurance. Live the best life, but add 
to it all means that may have been helpful to any of 
God's children, and that seem to you good." 

Then all things are permitted if we keep Christ in 
view? "Yes: in Christ only are all men free." 

We are only beginning to realize lately what a great 
teacher you are, Insight, and how wise and good you 
are! "I am happy for your own sake that you are 
really seeing more clearly. Do not prize the cup, how- 
ever, more than its contents." 

We could not get at the contents if there was no 
cup. "But from the golden cup the water is no purer." 

Did you know how much Mrs. C was touched 

by your message to her? "Yes: her spiritual state 
would give her power to see how dear she is to us, her 
work is much needed, and she does it from the 
highest motives. I see she is striving to bring a great 
soul into the light of the only way, and she will succeed." 

Shall I tell her this ? "Yes : whenever a word can 



172 INSIGHT 

help, do not fail to send it, and both Penetration, and 
he whom she strives to save, are ready for what you 
can give them. His angel is named 'Waiting.' I am 
glad you have conveyed to me a knowledge of this 
soul for what he most needs is insight. He has seen 
the truth, but it has been through so dark a glass, that 
it has always come to him distorted, and so, far from 
the beauty and symmetry of the blessed original." 

Shall we tell him this? "Yes: send him this message 
from me. Let him return from his long journey, and 
come again to the sunny path he trod in his first youth, 
before the clouds of doubt came which shut out Christ 
from his eyes. He has only to come with the old trust, 
and all will be well. His soul is one that is precious in 
the eyes of the Master and is represented in the beauti- 
ful story of the shepherd leaving the ninety and nine 
and going after the one that had gone astray from 
the fold." 

Will it do any good to send him this? "It will: send 
him this ; tell him no longer to vex himself with the why." 

To what society does "Waiting" belong? "He be- 
longs to us, and hence his doubts." 

Does Penetration also belong to the understanding? 
"No. To the heart. But we are all one in Christ : for 
whom we are building a body. Paul has taught you 
that when the end comes, Christ the spirit will bring 
humanity back to God, and present it a perfected man 
in His own image. It is a great mystery, but God 
projected man, one and pure, as his creation necessarily 
would be, but this one divided itself in many parts, and 
Christ's mission is to unite these parts again and bring 
it, as it left the hands of the Father." 



INSIGHT 173 

Will you tell us of the stars. Have they souls? 
"The stars are great suns, and behind every sun is a 
spiritual light, from which it draws its power. 

How were they formed? "By the spirit behind them, 
as all creation is formed. Creation is an endless work, 
and never to finite minds will it have an end, although 
there are periods of rest, even in this, but it will go on 
to all eternity and when it is perfected, Humanity will 
be a sun which will create a system of worlds. Every 
sun has behind it a Perfected Man, and this spirit has 
come to its creative place in God's plan by a way sim- 
ilar to ours." 

What an idea this gives one of eternity ! "Yes : 
eternity has no beginning, which is harder to under- 
stand than no end. You see through a glass darkly, 
how incomprehensible is God." 

(Something was said about scientists.) "Even they 
are beginning to have a material comprehension of the 
immensity of the universe. Now, you have the idea 
that lies behind science, and only look with this thought 
in your mind, into space and see the visible creation 
and you will understand how the stars sang together !" 

Is that the music of the spheres ? "Yes : it is : do you 
not wonder that such music has only come to you in 
disjointed fragments, and only to a few prepared 
souls? Does it not seem that all creation should join 
in the strain?" 

Do you hear this music where you are? "Sometimes : 
it depends on our state. In our best hours when the 
Christ is visible, the music comes as a soft accompani- 
ment to his divine presence." 

Would it be possible for us to see Tranquility today? 



174 INSIGHT 

"Yes ; she has come without at your bidding. I will 
leave you with her." 

When a mother dies, just before her child is born, 
what becomes of the infant? "The soul that had not 
drawn the breath of your physical life returns to our 
lower heaven if it has gone from there, and will be 
again incarnated." 

Does the child not have to pass through the spiritual 
world? "No: that is not the law. The child's body is 
left with the mother's physical body and the human 
soul comes naked and unclothed without hindrance to 
its place here. You have a clouded idea in your mind, 
but the body of the mother does not enter the spiritual 
world, it is left with you, and all the covering the new 
human soul has received is still a part of her physical 
body and remains with it on your earth." 

Is the child not with the mother then in the spiritual 
world if she dies? "That depends on her own state, 
sometimes she retains a conscious possession of the 
new soul, because such is her strong desire, but most 
mothers are willing their little ones should go into the 
heavenly state, for which they find themselves unfitted 
as yet." 

How is it we are permitted to speak so freely with 
Insight? "As with you, you allow the prattle of a 
child to learn what is passing in its mind, and because 
a child must prattle to learn to formulate its thoughts, 
so your growth must be in the same way." 

In all our difficulties will we not be guided aright 
if we trust in Christ? "Yes; you are being led every 
step of the way. Trust him entirely and all will open 



INSIGHT 175 

to you. He is the way and no enemy can darken it, 
for he conquered them all in his own human life." 

This sounds like vicarious atonement! "This is the 
true idea of that dogma : not that you are saved by his 
conquering, but that He has opened the way that all 
may find it, and has given you an example how to walk 
therein. None, not even the Father himself, can do 
your work for you. The idea of which you speak was 
necessary for the age in which humanity accepted it, 
and has been a stepping stone for many humble souls, 
but never for those who belong to the understanding." 

Should we pray for even material things for those 
we love? "Always. Jesus himself in his most Christ- 
like moments set us that example, and you can never 
improve on his teachings." 

Could you pray for material things for us ? "No : 
that is not my province, but I can and will pray that all 
light and truth may come to you and with that prayer 
fulfilled, all things will seem yours. What are the 
things that perish with the using, in comparison with 
the power that truth and light, which are love, will be 
to you in treading the way that is leading you to your 
source?" 

We shall now have to leave you, we hope what you 
have given us may prove a blessing upon you. "Yes : 
for we are the channel, as all you receive from us leaves 
the empty place, for more of Christ to enter, and we 
will be more blessed and more strong than if we gave 
not. This is what is meant by: 'It is more blessed to 
give than to receive.' Give yourselves therefore, as 
it comes to you, and the more you give the more you 
will have." 



176 INSIGHT 

May we now say good-bye to Insight and thank 
him for this interview? "He has left you to me, but 
I know his full heart is ever overflowing, and I can say 
for him, and with him, take of our best, and make us 
love you more, for thus adding to our riches." 

COMMUNICATION XXIV. 

INSIGHT: "We should have been sorry had you not 
come, for we are together waiting for you. Our circle 
here are not willing to miss you. Have you nothing to 
ask of me?" 

Do you perceive that we are all saddened by having 
heard of the death of Dr. E.? "Let it not seem death, 
but a new life, as it does to those good spirits who are 
now receiving that soul." 

Are you able to see him? "No: only through you, 
but I know the law that attends all births, as you know 
that all come into your world in accordance with the 
Divine Will. I mean that the manner of their coming 
is always the same." 

Will you not explain to us more clearly about the 
guardian angels? "I have said much on this subject. 
The chief point is that they are a necessary link con- 
necting a new-born soul with the spiritual. This link 
becomes necessary when mankind attains to his human 
development, and before he has any spiritual strength 
of his own. Without this connection man would revert 
to the animal, for it is often long before he develops 
any spiritual knowledge of his own growth, and the soul 
must never be alone." 

After the new birth into the spiritual world, is the 



INSIGHT 177 

angel still in attendance ? "Yes : for there must always 
be this unbroken chain, and not till the spiritual soul, 
dominates the lower nature, has this guardian done his 
work. As you guard your children even after they 
think they can go alone, even so, does our Father guard 
us." 

Do the guardian angels show the exact condition of 
their charge, and are they never unhappy? "They 
reflect as a mirror, it does not reach their real nature. 
They are above the momentary unhappiness which comes 
always of not seeing the end." 

Are they a part of the soul they guard? "No: they 
are entirely independent organizations. When you are 
perfected it may be your mission to keep some soul, in 
the state you are now occupying from returning to the 
earth from which it has risen." 

Do you mean we may become guardian angels? 
"Yes : they are higher than any of our race, and are 
part of the Great Spirit which lies behind the physical 
manifestation we call the universe. Do you not know 
I told you, that behind your sun was a spirit, a per- 
fected race of men ? These angels are part of that great 
spirit. 

How wonderful this is ? "Not so wonderful when you 
reflect that these are in a measure your creators, and 
are responsible to the Father of all races and all ages, 
for what they have been allowed to create." 

Did not God create us ? "There is only one Source, 
but there are many aids." 

Were the Elohim these aids ? "Yes. I see you under- 
stand that Forces which are intelligent beings, created 
what is visible to your eyes. The mystery that lies 



178 INSIGHT 

behind the works of the Great Being whom we can only 
call Father, can never be explained from the beginning, 
but our system of worlds was not the beginning, noth- 
ing that can be understood is God Himself. We are 
taught that God gave of Himself, that is of His essence, 
to many in the very beginning, and from them all has 
proceeded according to law, and always under the gov- 
ernance of willing obedience to that law: many names 
have been given to these forces, but it is best for us 
who have been allowed to know of the one First Cause, 
to think always of God as the Creator, and of these 
spirits as the channel by which He keeps us all in con- 
nection with Himself." 

I suppose it would not have been possible for God 
Himself to create anything imperfect? "We cannot 
tell what He is, or what He could do. Imperfection 
certainly cannot belong to Him or His works, and un- 
less we call freedom sin, there is no sin that can be 
traced back to Him or His first agents. There is a 
history of sin, that has reached us in fragments in 
connection with very high powers. So you see all are 
free. I do not speak from authority, but I have thought 
that perhaps our worlds belonged to powers that were 
not all good, or in accord with law. This would explain 
so many things." 

It does not seem to me we can be free till we know 
what we are ! "No : and it is that state of bondage that 
led to my thought. I have been allowed to see into 
another universe, where sin has never entered, and I 
can understand what a power disobedience is for evil." 

Is this the universe to which you are going? "No: 
I should have no work to do there." 



INSIGHT 179 

Will you tell us what you can of the one to which 
you are going? "I am not allowed to say much, but I 
go where all my brothers shall one day come, and I 
am to do this not as a reward, but because something, 
I know not what, in my growth permits it. It is a 
world that is to be gradually prepared for us all to 
enter, and I am to assist in some way in that prepara- 
tion." 

Do others in your heaven go? "There are many to 
go, I am told, but there are none from my immediate 
place. One is taken from each stage of preparation, 
for there are many states, or places, as you would call 
them, and there will be work for every gradation of in- 
telligence ; if united we are finally to make worlds. Do 
you not see that ages of preparation are necessary for 
each soul, that will finally make up the perfect and 
glorious body of which Christ is the spirit? It 
was to prepare your minds to receive some knowledge 
of my future work, that I told you the final place, of 
your race, in God's great and never ending plan of 
creation." 

Who is the spirit behind our sun : is it Christ? "No : 
the spirit that is behind our sun is not the same emana- 
tion of the Divine that will be the spirit of perfected 
humanity." 

Why is the sun so much greater than other planets? 
"The sun is not great compared with many others." 

Can you not tell us something of the moon? "The 
orb you speak of is only one of the many worlds, thrown 
off from the great centre, and is not to be the habitation 
of our race. It was thrown off from the earth, and as 
it has grown so far from the centre, its influence does 



180 INSIGHT 

not partake of the heat, light or breath of its centre, 
which in the physical world represents what God is 
in the spiritual." 

Does the moon influence the tides? "Yes: as a mass 
of matter, it has great influence, and it represents spir- 
tually what evil does, for it attempts to draw the earth 
to itself, and away from its true centre." 

Why is evil more rife at night? "The soul shrinks 
from darkness, because it feels without knowing why 
that light is truth and its absence falsehood." 

Have evil spirits more power at night? "Yes: and 
they love what represents themselves." 

Can they approach us while we sleep? "Yes: evil is 
always going round and about you, but the good within, 
and the guardian without, keep you from their power. 
They fly from your presence, for nothing brings them 
more suffering than an attempt to breathe in a pure 
spiritual atmosphere." 

Does the spirit which is man's higher part abide 
above him? "Yes: until man is ready to receive his 
higher part, the guardian angel keeps it, and it is 
through that part of you that I hold these communi- 
cations." 

Is Pursuit present at this lesson? "He has passed 
on, but there are many who might bear his name, for all 
are eager to learn of you and see through your eyes, 
the truths that are not yet clear to them." 

Could you not teach them without us? "They de- 
sire to see things from your level, and seeing things 
from every side helps even those who know infinitely 
more than you do. Many of these are to become 
teachers as I am, and it is necessary they should know 



INSIGHT 181 

the mind of humanity and learn the difficulties that 
beset them." 

We do not understand about "the divine Sophia" : 
will you explain further? "You are troubled about mere 
terms. The wisdom of God has come to men in as many 
ways as there are minds capable of receiving it, and 
one calls it the Divine Spouse, another the Christ life, 
another the Holy Ghost. We, as I have explained, 
call it the Spirit of Christ, and it is all one and the 
same, however it may manifest itself. There are many 
ways, as the sunlight that comes through colored glass 
takes into its purity the stain of its passage." 

Have you anything to say to Reflection? "Yes: 
read what I have given you: you will find many things 
directed specially to your doubts, and after reading 
show your love to me as your teacher by accepting what 
I have said." 

I have accepted it! "Then all is well with you, for 
accepting the way, all that man can do by walking 
therein is made very easy after he has once set out on 
the path. Do not feel discouraged if the knowledge 
of your growth is withheld from you: you have been 
told that suffering must come to you and none can 
help or bear it for you." 

Onward asks if Succor may come to us? "Yes: the 
mother is here." 

Has she anything to tell us ? "I can give you noth- 
ing you do not know of those we love in the spiritual 
world. All is well with them for none have desired my 
presence, and if succor is needed, they come to me. 
Our beloved little one is still in the secret chamber, 
where none intrude." 



182 INSIGHT 

Will you tell us something of the house father lives 
in? "It is so beautiful that you cannot conceive of it 
now, for the good works that are done in its rooms have 
beautified them beyond any earthly words to describe." 

Has father many friends about him? "Yes: many 
come to him, those who have been here much longer 
than he, gather about him, and those who come from 
your earth are happy if they know to ask for this 
help and sympathy." 

Has father yet met his friend Dr. E.? "I will see. 
He has not yet been brought to the knowledge of his 
coming, for the soul of which you speak is still in your 
world, not having left its earthly body." 

Do you mean to say that he is not dead? "No: but 
I am told that he has not yet passed the watchers on 
the threshold. If with you there are those who watch 
sometimes for hours, for the new born, so with us. 
There are those appointed to receive the souls who 
come into our state." 

Is the soul unconscious, meantime? "Generally the 
case is as you state it, but there are many exceptions." 

Will you tell us what you have learned since you have 
been with Insight? "I think Insight can teach you 
heavenly truths better than I. I give you tidings of 
those we both love, but he is our teacher, yours as well 
as mine." 

Can you tell us of Representation? "Yes: she is 
here, and she is so happy to be with us, and it was for 
her sake, with that of others, that you were brought 
today; she will answer your questions herself through 
Insight." 

What would I do if I should find myself separated 



INSIGHT 183 

from you when I leave this world? "My child, your 
desire will bring me to your side the moment you are 
born into a spiritual state, where I shall be visible to 
you." 

Why were you not allowed in the beginning of these 
writings to communicate with us ? "It was not well for 
me then, but now I am more sure of myself and my own 
strength, and no desire to return to you would be 
possible to me, for I have such a clear view of the 
eternal fitness of all things, that earth has left me, as 
if it had never been my beloved home." 

Shall we be able to come to you in your "city"? 
"If you so desire, and I feel that you will, for I can 
imagine no change, even in the highest heaven, which 
could separate us from each other." 

Why are you the only one spoken of as "building a 
city" ? "It is only because no one in whom you are in- 
terested has as yet reached my state. All who desire 
it are given a place of their own, and to it gravitate 
those spirits who are in accord and need to receive or 
give help, and they call my home a city, because so many 
have come to me, some of their own desire, but many 
whom I myself demand and therefore brought." 

Will you say something to Reflection? "I wish him 
to be happy in what he has received and not to disquiet 
himself except for the true riches, which lie both here 
and on your earth, hidden in the spiritual nature of 
man." 

Now we shall have to say good-bye to Insight and 
we thank him. "We shall come together again soon, 
and what I have is yours, for we are all one in Christ." 



184 INSIGHT 

COMMUNICATION XXV. 

"What does jour welcome circle desire from Insight ?" 

Can you tell us anything of the polestar? "That 
is a great sun and its place in the .physical universe 
contains and conceals a great mystery which I cannot 
explain, for I am not at liberty to do so." 

Was the mystery not understood by the ancients? 
"Yes : it has been always understood to have some effect 
on your universe, and its place in your sky shows that 
it has an important meaning in the plan of creation." 

Can you not tell us what spiritual truth it covers? 
"No : I do not understand it sufficiently myself. When 
I said I was not at liberty to explain, I meant that I 
was not to tell anything I could not make perfectly 
clear." 

Has it anything to do 1 with magnetism? "That is 
the medium through which all the great forces of na- 
ture act, and it has much to do with it. As you know, 
what you call the magnet always recognizes it as its 
source." 

Do you know why the passage in the pyramid always 
points to the polestar? "The builders of that monu- 
ment understood much that you think the result of 
modern investigation, and they worshipped that orb 
because they saw for some reason it was a guide and a 
friend to man. The ways by which man has reached 
knowledge are not known to me, and I should require 
to be put into a state to remember past lives, in order 
to answer these questions which would not be well for 
either you or me ; now my knowledge of spiritual things 



INSIGHT 185 

comes to me by a more direct and consequently interior 
method, and it is by far the best way." 

Does a child bring back any knowledge of its spir- 
itual state when it is born into our world? "Sometimes 
it retains its recollections of heavenly joys, and is in 
that way, you might say, in possession of its spiritual 
knowledge, but this is in no way intellectual, for it 
is of the inner vision. This makes the beauty and in- 
nocence of little children so lovable." 

What happens to a personality which has "abso- 
lutely no trace of spirituality in the human soul, either 
of the good or bad sort." Is there an eighth sphere 
into which it is drawn? "That is never the case in the 
present state of development. If there were such a 
soul in the universe, there would be a place provided 
for it, but the Father does not send his children who 
are too young to be conscious of their own ignorance, 
where they cannot improve. Evil is not sufficiently 
spiritualised, I mean that the race has not yet reached 
the state where it can become so. Man is yet too young 
to be treated as a responsible being. After he reaches 
a higher condition, he is yet free, as I have always 
explained, and even his spiritual growth might help 
him to rebel against law." 

Is there any chance in our future lives of our for- 
getting the knowledge you have given us? "You will 
not forget, if you incorporate it as spiritual food, and 
if it becomes part of your true being." 

I cannot imagine forgetting it, for it has come as 
water to the thirsty ! "Yes : and you are all growing. 
I must tell you not to give up the strong desire, for 



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with jour present state you can go on to very high 
levels." 

Is Succor present and can she tell us anything of 
Dr. E. ? "Yes : the mother was called to be made known 
to him by Perseverance, who wished his friend to feel 
the succor which she knows so well how to give to the 
new born." 

Is Succor still in the spiritual world? "She is withir 
with Tranquility, and was sent for when your frienc 
first came." 

When did he come? "It is not long, I should think 
two days of your time. — Succor is waiting." 

Grandmother, will you tell us of Dr. E.? "Yes: he 
is a great spirit, and the love he felt for the wants of 
those he helped on your earth is returned to him a 
thousand fold in his new home." 

Is he in the Spiritual world ? "Yes : and he is your 
father's guest, for a short time, while his own children 
and others arrange the house that stands ready to re- 
ceive him." 

Did you see the meeting between him and father? 
"No: it was afterwards that your father sent for me, 
but I felt when I saw them, how sweet and ready was 
the love between them, and what a power they will be, 
to help those who will come to them hereafter." 

Did father ask him for tidings of us? "No: for 
that was not in your father's thoughts, and he knew, 
from his own experience, that it was not well to allow 
his friend to return in thought to those he had left. 
Your father has reached the point when he can trust 
everything to the Father of us all, and his chief desire 



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now is to help his friend to reach his spiritual state, 
so that there may be perfect accord between them." 

Has Dr. E. seen his daughter Mary? "Yes: his 
beautiful children are all in his house, and they are in 
the most perfect state of rest and peace, and their 
household will be a most fitting place for the unclothing 
of this great spirit to take place." 

Can you tell me anything of M E ? "Yes: 

she is in this heaven, but I had not seen her till I met 
her at your father's door, where they all stood to greet 
the new one who came, not knowing where." 

Did he not expect to find things as they were? "No: 
he had been so busy with the work of his life, that he 
had given little thought to what should come to him 
here. He was willing to leave it to the Father, and 
says he was not even curious about the details, knowing 
all would be well." 

Did his soul visit his friends in this world after he 
died, before he went to you? "I do not know, but I 
think it possible, for he did not come as directly as he 
might have done." 

Where was he meanwhile? "He lingered on your 
earth. This is frequently the case, for many do not 
know they can if they choose come to the Spirit world 
as soon as they are rid of the flesh." 

Are there none to meet and guide such souls ? "Yes : 
but as the spiritual eyes are still blinded by earthly 
desires and longings, these good spirits are unseen 
and unfelt." 

Is the soul then all alone? "No: you seem to your- 
self to be just as you were, only freer and happier 
than you have ever been before. You see those you 



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have left, but you feel so free from your suffering 
body that you can often think of nothing else, and you 
do not understand for the moment that any one can 
consider you dead." 

Does not the grief of those who are left behind affect 
one? "That depends on the soul, sometimes it does, as 
in the case of my dear little one who could see and feel 
nothing else." 

What is Dr. E.'s spiritual name? "Persistency — 
and this spirit will only persist in the right way and 
after the unclothing has taken place, the beauty of the 
soul only will be visible, all that made it in any way un- 
lovely will drop off and he will be a worthy friend to 
my great son." 

M. wishes to know if you will pray for her? "Yes, 
my child : I am praying for you, did I not tell you that 
he who cared for you on earth, had committed you to 
my keeping? Do not fear, all will be as he desires." 

Does it take children as long to grow up in your 
heaven as it does on earth? "No: it does not. They 
grow quickly, as a plant grows with you under the 
concentrated rays of the sun, and then they leave us 
and later return to learn new things on your earth." 

Grandmother is getting much more learned about 
reincarnation ! "Since I have been permitted to live 
with our teacher, I see his knowledge, as you see the 
look of affection in the eyes of him who loves you." 

Will you not tell us something of our great teacher, 
Insight? "He says you know him well, and trust him 
as he desires, and that is all that is necessary." 

Will Insight tell us if it would be well for Mrs. 
C to form a circle? "It may be well, for Penetra- 



INSIGHT 189 

tion can distinguish between the evil and the good and 
some teacher may be assigned them, but I cannot tell, 
for I am not to teach them myself." 

Could they not reach you ? "Yes : for Waiting be- 
longs to us, but he would need other and great help, 
and I do not know if he can attain it. You had help 
from all the intermediate spheres, and then you had in 
the six, who first came, every attribute." 

How did this happen ? "Nothing happens." 

Will you explain the conditions? "You had the 
mother in the spiritual world, Representation in the 
lower heaven, Tranquility in this world, and in your 
own world, Courage, Endurance, Aspiration, Discern- 
ment, and all the others for whom the teaching was 
meant. Penetration has every safeguard and if it 
has been thought best, she will obtain a teacher for her 
charge, who will help him, but from what I have learned 
of him my impression is that the help must come from 
within. It is not knowledge that is needed, but an ap- 
plication of what he possesses to his spiritual needs." 

I hope you do not think us indiscreet in the 
questions we ask you! "Ask whatever you desire, for 
I do not see the wrong side of your desires. There is 
nothing you can demand that will not be given you if 
the knowledge is not ahead of your spiritual growth." 

Is it wrong to> worry over business cares ? "Yes : 
because too much worry is an assumption for man : his 
part is to do the best he can. God's part is to prosper 
his undertakings as he thinks best. Man cannot always 
see in what his true riches consist, but the Father's 
hand must be held and then the child will be sure the 



190 INSIGHT 

way is right, even though it may seem rough and un- 
pleasant." 

But it is the effect on others? "Do not fear, those, 
whom you would care for are also in the Father's 
hand, and what is for their true good will come to 
them." 

Courage says she must leave us, but she thinks you 
will not miss her from the circle ! "You are always 
wanted Courage, but we are strong, though your 
strength helps even without your bodily presence, as 
Aspiration is still of us, though you and she know it 
not." 

Will you continue to pray for our special spiritual 
needs ? "Yes : I always do, and I wish our prayers 
to blossom into good deeds. It is not by much speaking, 
but by doing, that the real growth must come. You 
are trying, and I am always made happy by each deed 
which vibrates even to our blest abode. Acts are the 
music of the spheres, and the humblest soul has its 
part in the great symphony which will never be com- 
plete until all join in the sacred song. When the stars 
sang together at your creation, it was because they 
knew that such creatures would complete this unwritten 
music and they wait to hear your feeblest notes with 
joy. This is the harmony of the universe, that all 
good spirits rejoice in the work of each." 

Do the spirits behind the suns see and know what we 
do? "Do you not know there is joy in heaven over one 
sinner that repenteth?" 

Which heaven is that? "It is the great heaven 
which lies outside your visible universe and which con- 
sists of myriads of perfected races." 



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Is that the last and highest Heaven? "Not the 
highest, for in the end all things shall be delivered to 
the Father, that all may be in God, and God in all." 

Is that the kingdom spoken of in the Lord's Prayer? 
"Yes: but there are many kingdoms to come before 
creation attains to this last. It has never entered 
into the mind of any finite being yet, to more than 
know of the existence of this last great kingdom of 
all." 

Then none have yet gone there ? "None of our race : 
by that I mean all of the perfected men who light the 
universe visible to your science." 

Will you tell us anything of your teacher? "Yes: 
he belongs to the perfected man who is our sun. I 
mean the sun of our system. Your guardian angels 
are also from that high place." 

Do you go to your teacher as we come to you ? "Yes : 
but I have the power to lay aside my spiritual body 
and to go to him more visibly than you can come to 
me, for we are both spirit then, and can discern each 
other." 

Has he a form? "Yes: a form as I have, and as you 
have, the form of man." 

Does he give you the same kind of knowledge that 
you give us? "He opens my eyes to behold the majesty 
of the Great Cause who created such wonders, and 
teaches me what I am to do when I go with him to 
prepare a place for our brothers." 

Is he a planetary spirit? "He is one of the race 
that make up the perfected man, and is a creative spirit, 
as I am to be allowed in a very simple way to become. 



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This spirit is to put into effect the causes prepared 
by those greater than he." 

By what name do you call your teacher? "I call 
him also Insight. It is his name translated into words 
that can reach your understanding." 

Why do we pray "Lead us not into temptation"? 
Would the Father lead us into evil? "No: but the 
God within you is capable of leading you into evil 
as well as into goon. The spirit of God which has 
come now into the human soul waits to see what that 
soul will do with it, and if it rejects its coming, will 
have led it into temptation. Man has attained now 
the state when he can discern good from evil, and this 
is because the spirit of Christ is in humanity : before 
it came, man could not sin knowingly, because he was 
not capable, but now the Light has come into the world, 
man through that very Light is capable of being led 
into the temptation to reject it. I think this is what 
Christ meant. He saw that with the perfect freedom 
that man must always have, the very God within, must 
be prayed not to lead him astray." 

Then we really pray to our own highest principle? 
"You pray to the highest within you, that sends the 
prayer upward. You pray to God through the God 
that is within you." 

Then we do have to employ a medium? "Do not 
misunderstand : you cannot be called a medium to your- 
self. Think of it, and it will become clear. The God 
within will explain." 

Is the God within, and God of all the same? "Yes: 
as God is manifested in His creatures : there is but one 



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God, but there are many manifestations and Jesus 
showed how perfectly man can become God." 

We shall now have to say good night. We are going 
into the darkness, but you will still be in the light! 
"Yes : it is not night with us when we are giving, and as 
long as you receive, we shall be in bright sunshine : you 
shall not go into the darkness, for the light of tran- 
quility shall be above you, and God the Father will 
keep you in his holy care. You did not ask why Tran- 
quility was part of the chain that brought you to me." 

Will you tell us? "The ties that bind us all are so 
many, and so firm, that it is no figure of speech to say, 
we are each his brother's keeper, and that all men are 
brothers. These ties will be seen and recognized when- 
ever in these spiritual worlds it is necessary, and so you 
see, you find friends all the way, from the ones who sit 
by your side on earth, to the beautiful spirit who could 
make a heaven for us by her very presence. Take this 
thought with you, that as you are one with Christ, you 
are one with all the Great Spirits who make your suns, 
and even with those greater than these, the ones who are 
found worthy to stand before the Great First Cause, 
and speak the name that we all hope one day to be 
worthy to utter. That is the symbol of the unseeable 
God, who lies above and behind all these that we are 
learning to apprehend. In His care I leave you. Fare- 
well." 

COMMUNICATION XXVI. 

"Insight will be glad to add to your spiritual knowl- 
edge. There are many here who will be interested in 
your presence." 



194 INSIGHT 

Is it true that there are seven planetary chains of 
which our sun is the centre? "Yes : there are." 

You never told us of them before ! "No : I most like 
to tell you of what will assist you in making your own 
circuit in safety and happiness." 

Is the world to which you are going in our chain? 
"Yes : and I go to assist in making it fit for our occu- 
pancy." 

You said it was not visible, did you not? "I said 
where I was going was not visible, for I go into the 
spiritual world connected with that planet, and that 
world is not what you understand as part of your sys- 
tem." 

How are the spiritual worlds formed? "From your 
point of view, nature makes herself visible on your 
planet as if from something inherent in itself. This, 
however, is not the case: all the real things in the uni- 
verse are spiritual things, and the things you call 
substantial are only shadows of the realities." 

Will you explain the difference between God and 
nature? "Nature is the manifestation of God which 
is seen by your eyes. God is nature, but is as much 
more, as man the artist is more than his creation." 

Are all the planets in the solar system visible to 
men? "No: for there are many that cannot be seen 
from your earth." 

Can you see them all? "No: I am not wise or spir- 
itual enough for that." 

Are the spirits of the sun rulers of the whole sys- 
tem? "Yes : of all the many worlds, and the myriads of 
races that come and go, and return at their command." 

Is the perfected spirit behind the sun, the Christ? 



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"It is not the same manifestation of the Christ that 
comes into your spirit and builds it up. This mani- 
festation has to do with what you would call physical 
things, but the work is done in the spiritual worlds, on 
the spiritual planes. All the worlds exist for your 
natural eyes, because there are spiritual worlds behind 
them. When I go to assist in preparing the next 
physical world for our race, I shall not work with 
temporal things, but prepare spiritual things, and from 
them the physical will spring into existence." 

Will you have to be incarnated there? "No. I shall 
return to our own spiritual worlds here and will be in- 
carnated again on your earth, but not for many, many 
years." 

Will you return to your present heaven while we 
are there? "Not when you next come. I am to return 
to your earth just before our race is about to leave it 
for its new home." 

That must be about two millions of years from now ? 
"Solicitude has a just idea of the time, but I shall be 
with you during all the last race of mankind on your 
earth," 

Will you be on this earth continuously? "I shall 
follow the law that will govern all humanity." 

Can you tell us how Mr. S got all his informa- 
tion about these things? "If he has it, it must be in 
some such way as this. Whenever souls in any ages 
are in a state to receive it, it has been given." 

He claims to get the knowledge from living men? 
"That may be. Are you not alive, and could you not 
give men ideas through these sources, which they have 
never received? Do you not understand that your spir- 



196 INSIGHT 

itual perceptions are opened? They may get their in- 
formation by some such process, perhaps through an 
open vision, perhaps through their spiritual hearing, 
perhaps as you in these writings, but it must come from 
some one who is willing as I am and who has been ap- 
pointed to communicate these truths to all who are de- 
sirous and longing to receive them." 

Is the union of the soul with God accompanied by 
any visible manifestation? "Not always by what you, 
with your sensuous perceptions would call a visible 
knowledge: but God cannot come into any man's soul 
without his being conscious of that presence, for the 
consciousness is the coming." 

Can we attain that by prayer? "Yes: a strong de- 
sire is the action of that will made manifest, as in physi- 
cal life the desire for food which preserves that life 
cannot come unless the life has already begun, so in 
the spiritual, the desire for God can only come from 
the God life having begun in the soul. The life is 
already there and longing to manifest itself to man's 
consciousness. This is the time that man's will comes 
into action, and conforms itself to God's will." 

I desire most strongly, but I do not see the life in 
myself. "You cannot see for you look for it from 
your physical standpoint, but I see the seed germinat- 
ing and it will soon bear fruit which you will perceive 
even with your material eyes. The desire is a strong 
evidence of the good growth. 

Insight, where is heaven? "Within your soul as 
much as any place." 

Oh, Insight, can you not make us understand? "Yes : 
I will endeavor. Heaven pervades the earth as atmos- 



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phere, not your material atmosphere: to me there is 
nothing but heaven. Your world is not in existence 
for spiritual intelligence, only for humanity in its 
limitations." 

When souls are earthbound where are they? "That 
only means that they willingly keep their desires within 
the limitations that shut out the spiritual from their 
view." 

Are there spiritual entities all about us ? "Yes ; all 
is spiritual, about, above, below, and around you." 

Are not those who have gone from us still here ? "As 
much here as anywhere, for there is no here, no there 
in reality, but to themselves they seem to have passed 
far from you, and to have gone into quite another and 
very different place, because their state has so changed, 
but to higher spiritual intelligence, they are with you 
still." 

When one dies, what becomes of his lower principles? 
"Sometimes you cling to them, and then they keep 
you near your earthly state, sometimes you leave them 
and then bereft of the life you gave them, they return, 
as all things temporary and changing must, to their 
original elements." 

Do any other teachers in your sphere give the 
name of "Insight"? "It depends on the state of those 
desiring their help. What you wanted was 'insight. 9 
What some come for is sympathy and knowledge, not 
of what they already perceive and desire to see more 
clearly, as with you, but of the first glimmer of the 
truth which cannot be called 'insight.' " 

Insight, you do not seem to become impatient of our 
oft repeated questions. "I should not be worthy to 



198 INSIGHT 

be your teacher if I did, for some of your circle repre- 
sent great patience." 

Have you always been taught by your guardian 
angel? "My guardian angel was always my teacher 
but I only came to know her here in a different way." 

When you reach the higher heaven, what will your 
angel do then? "She will enjoy the same kind of 
beatitude that I do, in her own sphere, and when I need 
her again, she will be with me." 

If we were sufficiently spiritual, could we see you? 
"Yes : for that is the only thing that shuts me out. The 
veil between us is your fleshly bodies, and if your eyes 
which cannot see but the temporal things of your earth 
could be opened, all heaven would dawn for your souls." 

Is it possible any of us may see you? "I cannot see 
into the future, but as it is revealed to me for my own 
uses and improvement, but I do not know why it should 
not be possible. You are spirit, as I am, only enclosed 
in your prison of flesh, and if that were dropped, you 
would be visible to me, and I to you." 

Will you tell us what kind of food is eaten in the 
spiritual world? "Food suited to the wants, just as 
yours is to your wants. I might call it fruit, or bread, 
or wine, or by any other name, but they would be sym- 
bols only, and I do not wish to use those with you. 
Every want will be gratified, when you first come into 
the spiritual world, for you will be received as treas- 
ured and expected children, 'so commit your way unto 
the Lord, and He will bring it to pass.' Does Reflection 
feel satisfied about the germ, that his desire proves is 
growing in his soul?" 

No; I wish it could be explained. "I do not see 



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how it could be made plainer to you. The child's wish 
to pull up the plant, to see its growth, is not wise, and 
you must accept my assurance, without waiting for 
proof. Act as if you were possessed of all the spiritual 
graces, and they will come to you. Love the brother 
actively, and the love of God will be manifest to you. 
Nothing is small. You must keep up the effort, and 
that constancy will last forever and forever without 
end, as God's activity acts without ceasing." 

Is there sin, in the other chains of worlds ? "Yes : 
and the Christ who has come to save us from its influ- 
ence has also saved them, or will do so before the end." 

Might the evil that entered this world have been 
what was left over from other purified worlds ? "Yes : 
the evil I am taught comes from a higher place than 
any we can know of, and I have been told that in the 
future we shall have all made clear to us, but the time 
is not yet. We are yet unable to reach the spiritual 
heights necessary to understand the high spirits who 
originated evil. The worlds all exist, from these high 
influences, and we partake of them all, evil as well as 
good. The mission of Christ is to eradicate these evil 
influences, and in the end make them serve in willing 
and glad submission the Source from which all has 
come." 

Could you tell us anything about numbers? "Num- 
bers mean many things, and would only add to the 
difficulty in making things clear to you, which is our 
chief object. I do not think it would add to your useful 
knowledge even if I could convey to you the little I 
know myself on this great subject. The human mind 
cannot take in the idea even of a million years, and I 



200 INSIGHT 

am told I shall be more than that before I return to 
your earth." 

Can } r ou remember your life on any other planet than 
this ? "Yes : I have been given to see my life on another 
planet many, many centuries ago, longer than you or I 
even can comprehend." 

Were you more material then? "I was less material 
than I was on your earth and my spiritual nature was 
freer, and more open to knowledge than it has been 
in any of my later lives." 

Was there no evil then ? "Not evil for which we were 
responsible, for our human souls were not enough de- 
veloped. We were in a more innocent state, as a little 
child is more innocent and more ignorant. The knowl- 
edge you ask for must be given to your race for many, 
many years, and I perceive that you are conscious of 
it, which I was not until I came here: I mean, I was 
not in my last life." 

Now we shall have to say good-bye. Will you give 
our love to all who form this chain ? "Yes : the chain 
is one of love and every brother here holds you each in 
his heart." 

I wish I knew how we could love more? "That will 
come. Do you not see you only know now that you 
do not love enough? That is the first step. You must 
love those to whom you can be insight. All things 
come from love and it is the only vehicle which can 
carry the good onward. Now your eyes are dimmed, 
not only by your own flesh, but by that of the brother 
whose beauty you often fail to see." 

Will you tell us how we can be better tomorrow than 
we have been today? "Pray for the spirit to quicken 



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your spirit, and ask that some one may come in your 
way to receive of your riches. Give of those riches and 
tomorrow will be better than the day just passed, though 
that has not been without its blessing. We are one, 
and the one spirit will keep us and help us to glorify it 
in our lives till we meet again." 

COMMUNICATION; XXVII. 

INSIGHT: "Do you come hungry for spiritual food? 
What is your special want?" 

This is Sunday with us. Do you also have Sabbaths 
in heaven? "Yes: our time is divided for us in a spir- 
itual way as yours is in a physical way." 

Is this Sunday with you? "No: this is one of my 
working days." 

What do you do on your Sabbath? "My spirit com- 
munes with the Great Spirit and is still." 

On the planet to which you are going are the lower 
kingdoms already beginning to evolve? "Not till the 
work begins on a spiritual plane can anything that you 
would call nature begin. The work has already com- 
menced, in the higher sphere of that planet, and when I 
go it will begin in the spiritual world, connected with 
that physical one." 

Is that world already inhabited? "No: but the mas- 
ter workman, who will lead and direct our band, is 
already there, and with his advent there was a first be- 
ginning out of the chaos of nothing on the physical 
plane. The work must begin in the highest heaven 
connected with that world, and is being gradually 
brought into the lower." 



202 INSIGHT 

Is there any vegetable or mineral kingdom there? 
"In the very depths of the lowest organizations the 
first glimmer of life is beginning, but they are not yet 
in form." 

Then it is in the heaven of that unformed world 
that you go to do your work? "No : it is in the spiritual 
world." 

How is it possible for that planet to be visible if it 
is so unformed? "It is visible because the spiritual 
light of the sun illumines it, otherwise it would pass 
entirely from existence. It is only visible to you be- 
cause it is lighted by your physical sun, but its real 
life is owing to the Spiritual Sun." 

When humanity has left this planet, will the earth 
become less material? "No : it will grow more material." 

Will it then be more material the next time humanity 
returns to it? "No: it will then be more spiritual, for 
it will have undergone a change, making it worthy of 
the more advanced state of humanity, but when the 
spiritual that accompanies man has entirely left your 
plane, it will then be simply matter, as your next home 
has become since you left it." 

Is it true that each race is devoted to the cultiva- 
tion of a sense? "You might perhaps put it in that 
way. Mankind grows slowly for it has a long journey 
to travel, and the point you have now reached is the 
period of quickening of all the spiritual life that is 
latent in your race." 

Will we not have seven senses when we arrive at the 
next planet? "Not all humanity: some souls will have 
arrived at that point." 

What will be the next sense .we possess? "When 



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the soul of man has been quickened by the spiritual, 
the next step is the conscious recognition of his new- 
life. As you perceive great differences in your present 
development, so will it be for many ages, but in the 
end, man will join hand to hand and heart to heart, 
and then the great term of his real life will begin." 

Are all guardian angels on the same plane? "Not 
at all, but most of our circle, because they belong to 
the same society." 

Did the Apostle Peter belong to the understanding? 
For Christ commended him when he first came to the 
comprehension of his mission, and said "On this rock 
(the understanding) do I build my church." "Thank 
you for your question. It has come to me for the first 
time that he does. As with you I only receive what I 
ask; knowing what he had been represented to me to 
mean, when last in the flesh to have been an error, I 
have never asked what relation he really held to the 
Truth, but I see it all and we are part of him, as he 
is of us." 

If Peter really understood Christ to have been the 
Saviour, how could he deny him? "There is always 
the reverse side, and having understood the right, it 
was necessary that he should also see the error, that 
is, the conflict we call the struggle between Good and 
Evil which must go on, until the last sin shall be de- 
stroyed and man becomes God, because God has then 
become man. 

Is it necessary that one should practice evil in order 
to know good? "The error must be perceived by the 
soul and rejected, and it can be rejected only when 
one has felt its full power by possessing it or becoming 



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it; each soul lives many lives and must thus come into 
possession of all truth." 

I hope we may not have to go through much more 
sin? "You will not need now unless you will, to come 
under the dominion of your lower nature, but you have 
been through every sin that now seems so low and 
wicked to you. Therefore love the brother, who is 
working through the same pathway you have trod. 
The power to do all that you hate, is still latent in 
your nature." 

Is there any state in which we can be conscious of 
our guardian angels? "Even in your present condi- 
tion, consciousness is possible, but there will come a 
time when all humanity will walk your earth in perfect 
accord with that higher principle which is now in their 
keeping." 

Do you mean when on earth for the last time or 
round? "Yes: that is what is meant when it was said 
'there will be a new Heaven and a new earth,' for the 
spirit in man is capable of glorifying and spiritualiz- 
ing his earth, so that it will be what this heaven is 
now." 

Is not humanity divisible into seven divisions or 
"rays"?\"I do not know just your idea: to spiritual 
eyes humanity seems a whole, some in advance of others 
individually, but all treading the same upward path 
which might be called perhaps a ray from the Divine. 
None can look at His many rays. We are taught here 
that the highest created forces who to us are as Gods, 
veil their eyes before the great and blinding light which 
is not God but only the glory that emanates from Him. 
Do not let this put you in your thoughts far from this 



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Father of us all, but think of Him in that loving and 
tender relation, and He will always seem near to you. 
Yes, even in your very soul." 

Is it well for one to withdraw from the world to 
study truth? "It is not necessary to withdraw physi- 
cally. Spiritual withdrawal is what is needed, and to 
the perfectly trained soul, by that I mean the soul that 
has learned by long practice to make himself one with 
his brother, there is no cloister needed, for there is but 
One in the universe, and that One can always be alone 
with God, for he takes every brother with him." 

"Light on the path" says you must attain to knowl- 
edge before you attain to speech, and there are many 
who maintain it is well to retire to solitude to seek this 
knowledge? "Do you put a child whom you wish to 
learn a language by himself or with those who will re- 
spond to what he wishes to utter? No man gets speech 
but by practice. He who would utter what is within 
comes to it best, by his many efforts, even though they 
may seem to him failures. Here in our heaven, in all 
the heavens, even we are told, in the first emanations 
from the very Highest, organization is necessary, and 
on your earth, it is even more so than anyhere else. 
No man liveth to himself: when he does he is in hell, 
for he has cut himself off from the 'ray' as you have 
called it in which he is appointed to walk. Do not 
understand that the soul is never to retire into its 
stronghold, and meet its own portion of the Divine, 
and light its lamp afresh ; but never can the light which 
each soul carries burn but in the walk appointed where 
other lamps also help to light the pathway common to 
all. Work with the organizations already formed, there 



206 INSIGHT 

is good in them, and your lamps will help dissipate 
whatever error may darken them. Do not try to do 
your life work by yourself, that will retard your growth. 
I send this particularly for Reflection. Solicitude 
must also join in the work the brothers have already 
organized, and if he will do this, many of his own per- 
plexities will work out their own answers." 

Can my thoughts and good wishes help Alfred who 
is so ill? "None are beyond your kind thoughts and 
loving prayers, and the soul of whom you are thinking 
is as dear to the Father, and to those appointed to min- 
ister to the ones the Father loves, as the greatest and 
wisest in his creation. Commit it, therefore, with per- 
fect trust to His love and care, and be sure all will be 
done in all worlds, for its growth." 

Has grandmother been with us today? "Succor 
has come from the spiritual world at your desire." 

Will she tell us anything about Aspiration? "I have 
been to welcome our little one into the circle in her 
father's house, for she is born to us now, and she de- 
sired that I should come to her in her new and beautiful 
body and see all that had been done for her in the cham- 
ber of peace." 

Is there now no danger of her trying to return to 
earth? "There is none, but her loving heart is still 
a part of her nature and she holds you in it as near and 
as dear as she ever did in her earth life, but there are 
other loves that glorify her thoughts of you and 
though she does not love you the less, you are not now 
the first in her heart." 

'Did she speak of us when she saw you? "Yes: she 
asked if you had come to Insight, and was told that 



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she still formed part of your circle. She wished you 
to be told of her new birth, and that her husband should 
know that her heavenly body is what she now desires 
him to think of and in all her work in her new life, she 
desires him to know she will not forget his spiritual 
interests, and that he must do his part to grow in what 
he has a perfect knowledge and understanding of." 

If it is well for her, will you tell her we are all con- 
tented to know she is happy? "If it is best; she her- 
self will ask for that knowledge." 

Is she able to see Insight? "Not now, except as you 
come to him. In her world there are circles which com- 
mune with the heavenly sphere, as you do, through 
their angels, and Aspiration will never be satisfied with- 
out the best possible." 

If she, and we, both go to "Insight" does that not 
bring us together? "Yes: you are together and 'Op- 
portunity' is with us, and their angels are now holding 
each other by the hand." 

How does Aspiration now occupy herself? "Her 
delight and her life now consist in learning the laws 
of her new home, in communing with those she loves, 
her sisters and brothers, her father, and those who 
make up the circle which forms itself around the home 
of my son. She is but newly born and as with you, 
all as yet minister to her comfort and she is passively 
taking in all the joys and the delights of which no 
words you can use can convey the meaning or extent 
to your mind, and if this is true of the first days of 
the new born soul, what do you think the joys of heaven 
must be ! I speak of this that your work on earth may 
not seem long or hard to you, when such great reward 
awaits its fulfilment." 



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How is the disappointment of having no children 
made up to Aspiration? "The maternal love is a love 
of the soul and is not left with the body to perish and 
every love that comes here and belongs to our higher 
part is recognized and satisfied. She will find awaiting 
her in the heaven to which she will attain the soul that 
was to belong to her on earth, and which will be to her 
as though it had come into her arms in her lower life. 
The relation of a soul 'Insight' has taught me is not 
only physical but spiritual, and the soul which might 
have occupied and animated a body formed of her body 
also bears a relation to her soul, and if that relation 
is a spiritual one as it is in her case, it will be recognized 
by both in the heavenly state." 

Are not mothers and children always truly related? 
"Not always, for some mothers do not hold that spir- 
itual relation to their children." 

What is the reason of this difference? "It is owing 
to the physical life lived, and the relative growth of 
the souls. Do you not see that the soul of the mother 
must be worthy to ascend into the heavenly state, and 
the souls that have left the heavenly state, and returned 
to it without any contamination of the physical world 
always go back into the state they have left." 

What has the father to do with the child's soul? 
"The father bears the same relation. We were speak- 
ing now of the little child that was to have come to 
Aspiration on earth. It is not the mother alone, both 
the soul and body is attracted by the union of father 
and mother, and the father will bear the same relation 
to the child that the mother does, and his meeting it 



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here will depend on his condition to enter the heavenly 
state." 

Will a mother who has lost her child see it in the 
same form? "Yes: her desire to see her child will 
bring it to her just as she remembers it, and she will 
even in the spiritual world hold it to her heart as she 
has yearned to do." 

Does a soul's desire to re-incarnate influence the 
length of its sta} r in heaven? "The mother desires me, 
'Insight,' to answer, — Yes, it does : some souls after 
they have fully opened to their true needs desire to 
return to your earth, and if it is best that wish is 
gratified." 

It seems to me according to your teaching that we 
sooner or later outgrow everything? "No: the loves 
that are of the soul are never outgrown ; some which 
seem to us the most important on our earth are not 
real ones, and they would be of no more use to us in 
our true moments than the worn out toys of our baby- 
hood would be to the mature man." 

But even our children have to leave us when they are 
reincarnated? "Yes: but the love impulse which made 
that soul your child is fully gratified, and in the end 
who can tell how all these tangled threads may appear 
perhaps, woven by God's hand into a beautiful and per- 
fect picture, of which angels even have now no concep- 
tion!" 

Is it true that our higher principles are not in us, 
but above us? "They are always waiting to be a part 
of you and your angel keeps them, lest at any time 
they may be lost in the distance which you sometimes 
put between them and your lower nature." 



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I am still perplexed about the real use of the guardian 
angel? "Do not let it be so; as a mother is a part of 
the child she holds to her breast and nourishes, so is 
your angel part of you. Do not confound the body 
with spirit. I wish it were possible for me to convey 
to you how your bodies seem to me, but the shadows 
of your real selves, but that cannot be ; your true self 
is about and around your physical self as the air is 
about and around you, and nourishes you, and you live 
because of it as your physical life is dependent on the 
atmosphere." 

Do you not see our bodies? "I see only your spirit 
as it is connected with this world through your higher 
self, and through your angel. Your human soul is 
the life giving power on your physical plane, and I see 
only its movements through the spirit that is here with 
the guardian angel who keeps it." 

To us it seems as though we held this intercourse 
through our minds? "Yes: from your standpoint, be- 
cause your human soul is your intelligence, and it gets 
its life from the spirit that informs it." 

Then the spirit is born to us? "Yes: to you all, the 
spirit is born, and you each have conscious moments 
of its influence, but they seem to you to come from your 
intelligence, because that is the medium through which 
it must flow on to your plane." 

You told me there was something I could not yet 
perceive and that I must wait ; when shall I be able, to 
see? "You do perceive, since then, that the spirit is 
growing into more and more conscious relations to your 
human soul. We are taught there is in all things a 
season of rest and of growth, and do not be dismayed 



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if there are times with you, when the relation is not per- 
ceived with clearness. As night follows day, so in all 
spiritual things of which they are only symbols must 
the hours of darkness, rest, and repose, come." 

Can we not shorten those hours of darkness? "If 
the effort is not relaxed: but do not dread the hours of 
darkness for they are as necessary as rest to the physi- 
cal body ; if you always make use of your best moments 
in giving what you have received, the rest comes as a 
well earned repose. Merit your repose and all will be 
well with you, but remember, it can only come by giv- 
ing. Give as I have told you to the brother, and in 
conjunction with the brother, for many lamps are 
needed to light up the dark places on your earth. Fare- 
well! and God speed you in all such work." 

COMMUNICATION XXVIII. 

Present : Endurance, Discernment. 

INSIGHT: "What shall be the subject of our com- 
munion?" 

I hope you will not think we come to you too often? 
"I shall never think a real desire for spiritual truth 
'too often.' " 

Will you tell us which heaven you are in? "I am 
in the celestial sphere of my heaven." 

Is the heaven beneath you the spiritual heaven? 
"There are also celestial states in that heaven, and 
even in the spiritual world, and sometimes on your 
earth, for the celestial is not a thing of place." 

Would it be possible for us to even enter it here? 



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"All can enter it who are in the true relation to the 
Source of Light." 

Is every one fitted in this age of the world to come 
into this relation? "But few are fitted, for there are 
many who have not come into a consciousness that they 
are anything but what their natural eyes behold." 

Shall we personally come into this true relation dur- 
ing our present life? "I cannot tell; your insight is 
becoming clearer, but I cannot see how it may be with 
you in the future, for as I have told you, there is an 
ebb in all things. You will never fall back into a state 
of indifference, but there must be this rest of which I 
speak, and it is according to the divine law ; so fear 
not." 

Oh, Insight, it would be dreadful to fall back into 
worldliness and sin? "That is not what I mean for you, 
but in many cases, even that temporary indifference is 
not of the importance it seems ; for all that has been 
provided for. As long as you feel as you do, it will be 
impossible; but if you should appear to fall back, do 
not fail to take heart and to begin again, for one of 
God's chosen has said, that he 'fell forty times a day,' 
and the Lord said you were to forgive your brother 
seventy times seven, and is not the Father more merci- 
ful and loving than we, his children, can be?" 

Someone has written, that if a soul through ignor- 
ance fail to seize the right moment for developing the 
spirit within, the opportunity passes, and is lost? 
"That is not true, and the soul you speak of cannot be 
willing to patiently live the life and accept the way for 
all along that way there come assurances to cheer and 
assist the doubting soul." 



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This thought has troubled me, but I shall accept 
your authority in this matter. "You are right to ac- 
cept my authority on this point; some souls reach 
heaven through sore tribulation, but it is because they 
do not come in the appointed way, and I who have come 
by many deviations know of what I speak." 

I hope the blessing of all you have taught us may 
fall on you. "There can be no blessing to any soul 
that does not reach all souls who are in accord, and I 
feel that our blessings will affect and assist each other." 

Will you not tell us something about the condition 
of a soul about to re-incarnate? "I cannot tell you 
much for such knowledge is sacred to each individual 
soul." 

Does the spiritual soul come into existence at the 
same time with the human soul? "No; that I can ex- 
plain. The human soul is in your sphere, before the less 
material part, and is the first germ, as I have explained 
of the new form. The spiritual soul comes into this 
organization when God breathes into it the first breath 
of life, in the first conscious moment of the new being's 
existence." 

Until the child begins to live independently of the 
mother is its life only animal life? "It is more than 
animal life now in your period of development, and it 
returns of its own spiritual tendencies to the spiritual 
life it has left here." 

When the spirit has entered man is he always con- 
scious of it? "No; man can have this spiritual life and 
be unconscious of it, as the human life was unconscious- 
ly possessed in the mother's womb. Man's work is to 
find the God within him as the work of the unborn 



214* INSIGHT 

child was to develop the material life around the human 
germ. Only by keeping closely in connection with the 
Father's life, as the child can only grow by its constant 
and close connection with its mother's life, can this 
development take place. God is to the spiritual germ 
what the mother is to the human." 

You must forgive us for asking the same questions 
over and over. It is because I do not understand clear- 
ly my own interior experiences. "No; you do not nor 
is it necessary. Do not analyze your spiritual growth. 
You do not try to trace your natural food through all 
its processes to blood and life, so do not think too 
much of your spiritual growth, only be sure to keep 
yourself supplied with food from the Life and the Way, 
and live in an atmosphere made good by love to all who 
are around and about you. Do not think about your- 
self, but look for the Light that has been lighted by 
the one perfect life, and all will be well." 

Why do some souls take so much longer for their 
unclothing in the Spiritual woidd than others ? "With- 
out invading the privacy of any soul, which I have not 
the power even if I had the will to do, I can say that 
those things depend on many contingencies, age, prep- 
aration, willingness, and others." 

Do old people more easily give up this life? "Not 
always, for to some souls, even in their youth on your 
earth, the rebirth is hailed as the most desirable thing." 

Do not the principles separate more easily in age? 
"That should be the law, but even old age comes some- 
times reluctantly into better things, for the spiritual 
sense is not a thing of time. The thoughts you have 



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in your mind concern the outer and more material part 
of the human soul." 

Do not the spirits who come back to earth, to com- 
municate through mediums, sometimes seem very spirit- 
ual and teach high truths? "Many who come to your 
earth are in possession of truths, and these are given 
out in proportion as the person in your sphere is cap- 
able of drawing or compelling them, sometimes without 
the consent of these earthbound spirits. It may not 
always be the spirit supposed, but some other, and as 
I have told you; high spiritual knowledge is latent in 
all spirits, and the good on your earth, whose spiritual 
eyes are opened, see the good in them, because spirit 
can only meet on the same plane and if the spirit in the 
man is stronger than that in the one on our side, it 
draws the good ; if weaker, the evil. That is only with 
the class of spirits who linger about your earth atmos- 
phere; with higher spirits it is different. The most 
sinful man on your earth could not draw evil from the 
heavenly sphere, even if he had good enough within to 
be allowed to perceive it." 

Will you tell Tranquility how often we think and 
speak of her ? "And we often have you in our thoughts 
and in our prayers ; and she, the peaceful and beauti- 
ful spirit, will come more and more into your lives. 
This is the legacy I shall leave you in this sphere, that 
your circle will still be complete, for your insight will 
be within you, and here Succor and Tranquility always 
await you." 

Reflection has just joined us; did you perceive that 
he had come? "His angel has been with us from the 
first, for he seldom leaves yours. Do not misunder- 



216 INSIGHT 

stand what I said. I do not mean that this means of 
communication is to be kept up after I go away, but 
the communion will be none the less perfect, and even 
more spiritual, for the insight will then be with each 
one of you. All will then have been given you that is 
necessary, and you will be ready as you are now willing 
to do your part. God be with you." 

COMMUNICATION XXIX. 

INSIGHT: "I am glad you have come for my time 
now is very short. I am soon to go to be fitted for my 
new work, and we shall not meet often, except as spirit 
meets spirit." 

Will you tell us how the correspondences between 
the lives of Jesus and Buddha can be accounted for? 
"Those correspondences have been often repeated since 
our race began, for it was revealed at the first by the 
great spirit of which I have told you, and whenever a 
saviour has come to your earth, he has fulfilled without 
understanding what was to be shown forth when the 
real Christ should come." 

Is the history of Christ's life not typical of what 
must come to the individual soul? "The events really 
occurred, but even in the life of the most ordinary 
soul, spiritual meaning exists, and in Christ's life lay 
the deepest of all meanings and the story of man's 
redemption. I shall tell you what is yet known but to 
very few of your earth. The Saviours who came be- 
fore Christ were sent from the spiritual sun. Christ 
came from a higher and holier and more spiritual man- 
ifestation of the Divine, and began a new era in the 



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history of our race. This I am taught has been the 
law in all races who have progressed out of matter into 
spirit. When the race comes into a position in which 
the human soul is ready to receive the Divine, a new 
order of that Divine is manifested, and another round 
is made in the circle of creation, not in our little uni- 
verse, but in the larger one of which we form but a 
part." 

Is this process now going on? "It began with Christ 
manifested in the flesh. Before this manifestation can 
take place, some human soul must become perfectly 
spiritualised so as to be worthy of this new order of 
divinity, and the soul that was in Jesus had so grown. 
If all the good spirits that preceded him had endeav- 
ored to go through the process he was to accomplish, 
it was only in accordance with the law that there must 
be first the ear, then the full corn in the ear." 

Have you ever seen the perfected soul of Jesus 
Christ? "The spirit so overshadows the human soul 
that I have not been conscious of its presence, though 
we are taught that it is the heavenly places where this 
spiritual sun of our firmament appears. I mean that 
this perfectly spiritualised human soul is a part of our 
sun, which is Christ. That is the bringing back of 
the human to the Divine. As Christ is, so shall all hu- 
manity be in the blessed end. The spirit that lies 
behind your physical sun had not the power to go be- 
yond the making of the human soul in its creative en- 
ergy, the rest of the work is done by the higher spirit 
that came to earth in the soul that had been perfected 
to receive it ; therefore most of the spirits that came to 
teach and to save our race before Christ taught men 



218 INSIGHT 

of their own works, that is, of the physical universe, 
and thus laid the foundation for the spiritual knowledge 
which is to come to man, as he begins his ascent round 
the circle to the divine. I feel that you are worthy to 
receive this great knowledge, and it fills my soul and 
that of all my companions with a deep joy, that the 
night is almost ending and the morning of man's re- 
demption drawing near." 

In the world to which you are going, you spoke of 
the "Master builder." Did you mean Christ? "No; 
but it is a spirit of the creative world that forms the 
spirit that lies behind the sun, and that lightens all the 
worlds of which we form a part. Do you not see that 
the next home of man belongs yet to his physical 
nature?" 

Has this spirit ever been known to humanity? "No; 
it has not. There are spirits belonging to the perfected 
man, behind our sun who do spiritual work and it is 
they who have come, in many disguises, and in many 
ages to keep alive the spiritual fire which was latent, 
and unconsciously possessed by man from the begin- 
ning." 

Will not this spiritual impulse now in the world ac- 
quire great momentum? "Yes; that is the law; in the 
spiritual as in the material world." 

What can I do to hold my thoughts on one subject, 
and go down into my own "centre" ? "That is a matter 
of growth, and each effort you make to subdue your 
own nature or to help some other soul is a step towards 
the consciousness you seek. To some souls this knowl- 
edge never comes on your physical plane, and you can 
imagine the joy of the soul who suddenly finds himself 



INSIGHT 219 

in possession of the Christ when his spiritual eyes open 
in the spiritual world." 

Does not the second advent mean the spiritual com- 
ing of Christ to the individual soul? "Yes; it means 
that, but its highest meaning is his coming into hu- 
manity as a united and redeemed whole." 

Is it true that a diseased body is always caused by a 
diseased soul? "Not always of that particular soul, 
but all disease as well as all sin is the result of spiritual 
wants in the universe in which each member suffers for 
the other." 

How can we accept it as God's will when we see those 
we love suffering physical pain? "You must accept it 
not as God's will but as the result of a broken law. 
Man is one, as the members of your body are one, and 
you know that pain even in the least of your members 
is enough, to disturb the peace of the whole system." 

Will you be able to be in communication with Tran- 
quility and your other friends when you have gone to 
your new work? "I may be, though I am not yet in- 
formed of what my state will be, but I feel that my 
work could not be well done anywhere, were I cut off 
from what makes so much of my life here." 

That is just what we feel at being cut off from you? 
"Therefore there may be communion between us, for 
shall we not still be one in Christ? That will form, I 
am sure, my bond of connection between those I leave 
here, and I do not see why it may not reach to you, if 
you grow constantly in that life. I do not think you 
will need to see with your outer eyes the words which it 
will be my happiness to send you, for as your spirit 
grows it will not need this manifestation which now is 



220 INSIGHT 

necessary to convince you. If many perfected spirits 
are to work for millions of years to prepare a home for 
our physical bodies, do you not see that as the spirit 
is greater than matter, so its growth must be slower? 
Therefore, be patient and faithful, and trust, even if 
you can see no result in your present life; the seed is 
there, and heaven itself with all its powers cannot up- 
root it." 

What are the legitimate means we may use to allevi- 
ate the suffering of one we love? "Every means that 
the spiritualized reason of man can conceive of, God 
does not will suffering, and as his agents you must do 
all you can to help the coming of the time when there 
will be perfect accord between God's will and man's life 
on earth." 

Is not prayer a means we should use? "First that 
which is physical, obey the laws of your earthly bodies, 
and then prayer will mean something. There is not 
power in prayer until all commands are obeyed." 

Are there not some cases in which the individual has 
ignorantly broken laws? "Yes; but the breaker of law 
must pay the penalty. The sum of suffering is being 
diminished however, and more and more, as the night 
disappears, will peace and health and physical gladness 
be found among the sons of men, prayer always helps, 
but it cannot change the law if it has been broken so 
that it has brought organic changes in the human 
body." 

If Christ could cure organic disease eighteen hun- 
dred years ago, why can he not do so now? "He can, 
if the conditions are the same. Do you not read that 
in all cases where disease was cured, he was met by 



INSIGHT 221 

the faith, which is lacking now in those who come sick 
and suffering to call out your sympathy and prayers. 
Find that faith, and you too can work the same 
changes." 

Must we pass through all the sequence of races be- 
fore we can attain spiritual enlightenment? "Not nec- 
essarily, for there have been souls out of all races who 
have received the Christ life." 

Have the more ignorant races, the Negroes for in- 
stance, attained this enlightenment through other 
faculties than those we use? "There are individual souls 
who have been sent into that phase of life purposely 
to teach that race, and prepare it for the coming into 
the enlightenment that only the Christ life can give." 

Were these souls themselves already possessed of 
the Christ life, and did they come back of their own 
accord? "Yes; often, and in some cases they became 
altogether possessed of the knowledge that forms part 
of that life then. Growth in the spirit would progress 
better on that plane than on another more favored." 

Then why have we had to pass through the progres- 
sion of races before coming to spiritual enlightenment? 
"Races like individuals have their life and progress, and 
it has been necessary that some should precede others. 
Why, I do not know, but that seems to be the law in all 
things." 

Do you still love some persons better than others? 
"Some are nearer to my soul, but I wish for all alike 
the good things that have been promised to those who 
do the Father's will. I am sure that in the very end 
there will be some nearer and dearer to each soul for 
everywhere in God's universe, where I have been per- 



222 INSIGHT 

mitted to go, I see that such a law is working its beauti- 
ful fulfilment." 

Can you give us any idea in our time how long it will 
be before you go? "It will be but a very few days, and 
I want you to come to me when you will, for I wish to 
leave no desire of our dear circle ungratifled." 

We cannot help feeling badly at your leaving us. 
"But I shall take you with me, and perhaps the work 
I am to do may have some meaning for us all when we 
meet in that new world which is to grow worthy of our 
coming. We shall all be together again in your present 
abode, and God is so good to those who love Him with 
understanding, that it may be given us to be together." 

Do our friends in the spiritual world know of your 
going away ? "Yes ; their angels know of it, and the 
mother has conveyed the knowledge to those she loves to 
succor and instruct, and many are here now from the 
lower heaven to wish me Godspeed in my new work." 

Has father ever come to you in your heaven? "No; 
but he can come to me if he so wills for his state is 
really a heavenly one, and his true home is in one of the 
spheres of the heaven that can hold communion with 
this." 

Is grandmother present with us tonight ? "Yes ; she 
is here." 

Is all well with Isabel? "All is most beautiful, she 
has already made her own circle, and many are at- 
tracted by her sympathy and kindliness, and she too is 
growing toward the higher state which will bring her 
again into her father's sphere." 

Is she not always with father? "No; he has left the 
sphere where he was doing his work, for another in the 



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spiritual world. There are more divisions than with 
you, and he has gone where his growth led him." 

We shall never forget your teachings when "Insight" 
has left us, and these communications have ceased. 
"Do not, for we shall not be separated in any way ; the 
faces that are turned heavenward, as yours are, cannot 
be far from us, and you must feel that the cord is un- 
broken between us. Love is the only material of which 
that cord can be formed, which is lasting and secure. 
It is the band which surrounds the universe and both 
ends are in our Father's hands." 

Now it is late, and we must say good-night. "Yes ; 
you must not make yourselves weary even to be with us, 
for though it is not the body that comes, yet the spirit 
and the body on your plane are so closely connected 
that the higher must give place sometimes to the lower, 
and so, with the blessing of our beloved teacher which 1 
give you from his lips, we will part." 

COMMUNICATION XXX. 

INSIGHT: "I was hoping you would come, for 
I go from you very soon." 

How soon do you go? "I cannot be reached by you 
much longer, not more than two of your days." 

Would it be possible for you to give us any idea of 
how you go to your new abode? "I go by means of a 
spiritual force, which is a motive power in our sphere, 
as you have many on your plane. I cannot describe it 
to you better than to say I shall make a conscious 
journey through what you would call space, but which 
to me will seem like difference of state." 



%M INSIGHT 

Does not the thought of this journey make you feel 
very solemn? "No; I feel very joyous and happy. I 
am much favored, and it is in answer to a great desire." 

Do not those about you feel sad? "Here we share 
each others happiness without any thought of self and 
my dear ones are as pleased at my success in obtaining 
this opportunity for knowledge as if their own desires 
were being gratified." 

Is it very far in space where you are going? "It is, 
for I am taught I am to prepare for many changes." 

Will you tell me once more before we part something 
about your first coming to us? "My guardian and 
guide first advised me that you were in a state of prep- 
aration to receive what I had to give, but she had her 
instructions from a higher power, and as I told you 
before, there were many influences at work which made 
these communications possible. I think my first teach- 
ings have been communicated to you, and I am sure 
there is nothing now I can add to the many truths I 
have given to help you nearer to> the Christ, for I can 
only water the seed, you must do your part of the work, 
and the greatest of all must be done by Christ himself, 
who is only waiting for you to open the door at which 
he stands and knocks. As I find your minds ready to 
receive, I have given you knowledge regarding God's 
creative work, but that was not the most important ; 
His redemptive work is the real thing I came to teach, 
and that is what I hope you have begun to understand." 

We have lately been reading a book which contains 
many of the same ideas we have received from you ; did 
you teach the author? "I have taught him, or he has 
obtained knowledge in a similar way from some one of 



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our society; those who come to seek knowledge, even 
with you now, do not know me by the name you use, but 
by some that answers to their particular need and state. 
I mean that those who are now with us at this moment 
do not know me as you do. I teach many without the 
intervention of written words, but each who comes must 
be taught by some form, for on your plane, form is 
necessary, with some it is imagery, with others it is 
open vision, with others the ear is spiritualised, and 
they hear in their inner sense the meaning that comes to 
you by your sight." 

Will there be no possible means of our holding this 
communion after you are gone? "Yes; you shall each 
have what you desire, for I have so arranged that not 
one shall be left without a guide. Wait and see what 
will come to you and in the end each will find if he is 
faithful that he has not been forgotten." 

Would it be well for us ever again to sit together in 
this circle? "I should not advise it, for there are, as 
you have experienced, many who would attempt to mis- 
lead and deceive you, but you shall each be satisfied. 
Live the life, follow the way, and whatever comes to you, 
the end will be filled with joy and satisfaction." 

Was I not conscious of being with you last night? 
"Your angels are constantly with me for they repre- 
sent your best aspirations, and you may have had a con- 
sciousness of being with me." 

Are all guardian angels, even those of the wicked, in 
your heaven? "No; they are always in the heaven 
which represents the highest possibilities of their 
charge. You could so govern the spiritual life, that 



226 INSIGHT 

your angel would ascend far above where he now 
stands." 

Does your present place now represent our highest 
possibilities? "Yes." 

Does your guardian angel accompany you in your 
present undertaking? "Yes; she will accompany me, 
as my influence, and the connecting link between me 
and the Divine." 

The more one progresses, the higher the angel goes : 
is this so? "No, the angel has his own place. I am 
speaking of him as a representative. All the Angels of 
our race are beings of the spiritual sun, where their 
real home is, but as our representative and link, they are 
in the heaven to which each soul belongs." 

What relation do they hold to the Christ? "The 
same that we do, for that is the manifestation which has 
come to all the redeemed sons of God." 

Did you give us to understand that the guardian 
angel was relieved from his charge when the soul left 
this world? "No; that is not the case, until the soul 
reaches its highest heaven. At the end of each round 
of growth, there is a long period of rest and reward 
in which both the soul and the angel share. It may have 
been of that I spoke. I could not have given you to 
understand what is not true about so important a sub- 
ject, and upon which you have asked so much." 

Does knowledge of Divine truth possess the power to 
cure disease in the body? "It will in the end, but now 
there is too much sin in your world, for that power to 
act, as it is the will of the Father it shall, when man has 
reached a higher plane. Each time the race accepts 
a new truth, it builds with that acceptance a more beau- 



INSIGHT 227 

tiful house for itself, and when truth is more diffused, 
all sickness and suffering will disappear from your 
earth." 

Even now in individual cases where truth is accepted 
will it not tend to eradicate disease? "Yes ; in many in- 
stances, but as I have explained, the laws of physical 
life must first be learned, accepted and lived, before 
man can raise himself even in individual cases into per- 
fect health." 

How is man to learn these laws? "Man knows now 
more than he lives up to, and learns it by experience 
which is only another word for living ; all truth must be 
lived before it can be called known." 

Can you tell us whether our spiritual growth has 
kept pace with our intellectual growth? "You have 
made great advancement, not yet however to accord 
with your intellectual understanding of what has been 
given you; most of these teachings have been recalled, 
for you have all known them, and if you live them, the 
recollection will grow clearer and brighter. I have 
every hope you will do so for I see that all are in 
earnest." 

Are all souls the same age? "All on your plane of 
development, not all on your earth, for the age of souls 
is measured by their growth." 

Can you command the forces of the spiritual world? 
"Not command them individually, but I can call to my 
assistance for any good purpose, many aids." 

Would it not be possible to enable us to see you be- 
fore you go away? "If that would lead to any good, it 
might be accomplished, for there are many ways by 
which I might come to you, but the one I prefer is to 



228 INSIGHT 

come to your inner vision, and you shall yet have a con- 
scious recognition of what I am 1 to you." 

Can you not come by some of the processes known to 
modern spiritualists? "I should be sorry to come to 
you on your plane, I wish to be apparent to you on my 
own. Think of this' desire often when in your quiet 
moments and your wish may be realized." 

May we all hope for this ? "Yes ; all may see me if 
they choose to give themselves to that desire." 

I hope there is nothing wrong in our wish to see you? 
"The wish is natural, even here we long for a vision of 
those who have been instrumental in our rising to higher 
things. Do not fear in these, our last moments, to ask 
or make known any wish of your hearts." 

Oh, Insight, I wish to attain the power of healing, 
how can I do so? "Grow in the Christ life, in it is the 
germ of all health, find faith in the soul that occupies 
some sick body and those two elements meeting can con- 
quer all disease." 

Onward's desire is that you should make yourself 
visible to Reflection ? "That vision I have promised, if 
the desire is earnest and protracted." 

Courage will not express a wish, her desire is to be 
able to do her duty to the end. "As thy day, so shall 
thy strength be, dear Courage." 

Solicitude wants to know how to attain true courage? 
"By beginning with little things ; no great results come 
all at once. Do you not see the change which I can 
perceive since you first came as Expectancy, with no 
formed ideas of what you wanted?" 

Insight, have you nothing to say to Endurance? 
"What shall I say to the one who has so helped me in 



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my loving task, except that I find her worthy for her 
high work, and that with her own eyes, both in your 
world and in all worlds, she shall rejoice in the success 
of my labors." 

What Reflection desires is to have that door you 
spoke of opened? "That is your work; do you not feel 
in your best moments that the Christ is knocking at that 
door? Open it to the divine influence, and he will 
come in and dwell with you forever, and to do this is no 
great or difficult task — keep the commandments, love 
the brother, and all is done." 

How can we increase the capacity for loving? "In 
the sacred and close relations of life which have been 
ordained for the very purpose of showing what love is. 
Begin by little, and little, as in all things, and you will 
find it less and less of a task as you grow in the good 
way." 

Are souls in the spiritual world more conscious of 
their relation to their guardian angels than we can be? 
"Yes ; they are ; for in their best moments they can be 
sensible of their immediate and personal presence. 
There are many, many spheres or states in the spiritual 
world from the lowest man, who comes into it reeking 
with sin, to the angelic soul, who remains there to help 
and to teach those whom she desires to assist." 

Will you tell us where souls get their garments they 
wear? "The garments are representations of their 
spiritual condition, and are given them by the Christ. 
They represent their state toward him and are changed 
with that state, being sometimes less, sometimes more 
beautiful, but always fitting the occasion they repre- 
sent." 



INSIGHT 

What is the form of your garments? "They bear 
the same relation to our spiritual bodies that yours do 
to your physical ones, and as you in honor of some 
friend or some superior clothe yourself in garments of 
state, so do we appear in clothes of many shapes, and 
many textures, and which are as varying and as infinite 
as our states are many." 

What kind of clothes do the wicked wear? "Their 
clothes appear as soiled and filthy rags." 

Are the colors of the garments worn by the good var- 
ious ? "Yes ; color here is a symbol of state, and no 
earthly eye could bear the radiance of the clothes of 
those who are in close communion with our spiritual 
Sun, for they reflect his rays and therefore partake of 
his ineffable beauty." 

Will not the wicked ultimately come out of their 
state? "They will, but we have never spoken of the 
wicked ; their state is quite unlike any I have told you 
of, they go into it of their own accord and are looked 
after by high and holy spirits, who can enter even the 
hells without leaving the heavenly atmosphere they 
carry with them." 

Is not every one obliged to be sinful ; is it not the 
circle of necessity? "As I have taught you, good, to 
be worth anything, must be chosen, and that cannot 
be till you have tried both, and seen which way is most 
in accord with your nature. Even the very wicked on 
your earth have in them the small seed of good, and 
it is so cared for and tended in the spiritual world, that 
many who would seem to you hopeless in their earth life 
leave much that occasions their wickedness with their 
bodies and here grow into good and holy souls." 



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Is it true there can be such a thing as hell? "There 
can be, but it is always of the soul's own making. You 
can find hell in your own nature, and it is everywhere, 
in your world and in these worlds ; there are places 
where none but the wicked congregate, as there are with 
you." 

Is it desirable that souls should return here after 
death and seek help from 1 those who are able to com- 
municate with them? "No; it is not in accordance with 
God's will that any should seek help from your sphere, 
but some do it, and to some good souls with you, the 
power is given, as I told you, to assist such to go to 
their right place, where a more efficient help is always 
waiting to lead them back to light and truth. The 
proper place for such souls is in the spiritual world, 
but God never leaves his children without guides, and 
they are allowed to be cared for on your earth, but the 
greater number of such souls are only seeking sensual 
delights, by entering and using the bodies of those to 
whom they profess to come for health and comfort." 

Is there any special meaning in color? "Yes; colors 
have their spiritual meanings, but this varies according 
to the position they occupy, and I cannot now go into 
such a subject with you." 

Has every soul its own Aura? "To spiritual eyes 
there is an atmosphere around each spirit in which it 
lives, and through which it seems to reflect its state. 
This atmosphere is capable of many and beautiful 
changes, and all the colors are visible, sometimes in 
these seeming clouds of light." 

Does the same thing exist about the body? "Yes; 
there is also an emanation from each human body which 



INSIGHT 

is as distinct as his person, and the lower orders of 
creation perceive this, and know you by what appeals to 
their instincts." 

Has Penetration been with us this evening? "No; I 
cannot see her at present. She has been with us often, 
but now I do not perceive the beautiful angel who rep- 
resents her earnest soul." 

As this is our last meeting, will you not give me a 
message for her? "She is not in need of any word from 
me, for she has a light of her own by which she keeps 
in the straight way, and that light is also a guide and a 
help to many an eager longing soul, and all I can say 
to her is, God speed you in your good work, and make 
many like you to bear the blessing of His love to those 
who have few to comfort them." 

Shall we continue to pray for you after these lessons 
have closed? "Yes ; have me always in your hearts, and 
let my name be on your lips when you come into the 
presence of our Father, for He is to me, as to you, the 
source and end of all that I am or can be to all 
eternity." 

May we come to you again before you go? "Not 
again." 

May we not still consider you our teacher? "I have 
given you many things, but there is nothing I have 
taught you so important as the old truth which you 
knew before you knew me, that there are but two com- 
mandments, the one to love God and the second to love 
the brother. Were I to hold these communications for- 
ever, there is nothing more I can add to these, for they 
hold the essence and soul of all that can be said." 

Will you give our loving and grateful thanks to all 



INSIGHT 233 

those who form this chain? "Your advance towards 
them is the true meaning to them of what you say, and 
they are all as happy as you can be, for what has come 
has flowed through us from the one Source, and has 
blessed us, as it is blessing you. Do not let anything 
you have received remain with you, give in your turn, 
and the channel will be kept open, and we shall still be 
one, as we have been for so long." 

Will you not still continue to protect us from evil? 
"Our part will still be done, yours must not relax ; keep 
your interest fresh in what has been said between us, 
and no evil can come near you. You are now to seek 
within, for your guide, and in time you will find an in- 
sight which will be more to you than I have been, for 
your souls will be more open to the great and never 
ending knowledge that will flow into them." 

Have numbers any special significance? "Yes; they 
have, for what you call numbers are the base of the 
universe, numbers represent harmony, and the great 
spirit to whom was given the power to call our physical 
world into being used them as the hand of the Most 
High who holds forever within His grasp the real mean- 
ing of things." 

Are there any special numbers that have greater 
significance than others ? "They are not of use, for like 
many of the hidden things of God, their significance 
has been guessed at, but even in our heaven their real 
meaning is not known." 

Is Sanscrit a tongue more adapted to express spirit- 
ual truth than any other? "No; for the meaning of 
words is given by the spirit, and the form is not of so 
much significance." 



234 INSIGHT 

It has been said that a knowledge of Hebrew was a 
key to the Scriptures? "The Scriptures were written 
first in that language, and in order to arrive at the 
lower meaning, a knowledge of it is necessary, but the 
spirit of a good man can see more than any root or 
word can say to him, for the conveyance of spiritual 
truth a look is sometimes more efficacious than the 
words of any language." 

Is not the channel between us more open than usual 
tonight, the writing is so easy and fluent? "It seems 
so to me, and I see it does also to you, but I always 
feel that you understand me, for Endurance has the 
gift of putting my thoughts into pure and simple 
words." 

Are there many gathered together to listen to you 
tonight? "There are many here, for as with you they 
are not to come again. I give my last thoughts to those 
of my own household." 

Will you describe to us the place or state you are in 
at this moment? "I stand at the open door of my beau- 
tiful home, around me are your angels and all the good 
spirits who have come from many states to hear from 
your plane." 

Are we held responsible for evil acts committed in 
dreams? "All that man is held responsible for are 
those acts which are the result of an intelligent choos- 
ing of the wrong in place of the right." 

Can we control dreams? "Yes ; man can possess him- 
self at all times, but in sleep sometimes bad influences 
are brought to you by those in your neighborhood, 
and you suffer for the brother's sin." 

We shall now have to say Good-bye. We shall pray 



INSIGHT 235 

for you always, "Insight," and shall try to teach others 
what you have taught us. "That is the right spirit 
in which to part. I go to do my work, you go to do 
yours. We are alike in the Father's hands, and being 
His children nothing can readily separate us, for He 
is everywhere and we are as one family with the same 
interests, and the same loves. Let us each do well his 
part, and the blessed end will come all the sooner, and 
our partings will be over, forever and forever." 

The End of Part First. 



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PART SECOND. 

After Insight had taken leave of us, and his teaching 
ceased, it seemed as if a great Light had gone out. 
Endurance and Discernment mere separated by oceans 
and continents, the one in California, and the other in 
Europe; but a year later they were together again, and 
the following communications were received. 

COMMUNICATION' XXXI. 

Present: Endurance and Discernment. 

"Come without fear. I am the minister of Tran- 
quility. I am called for this service, 'Trust,' and I am 
to take you where you would be." 

Is it possible for us to see Tranquility? "You are 
here at the door of her house, and I, 'Tranquility,' hold 
you by the hand, and bid you welcome ; I received notice 
that you would come, and I am to answer what you 
desire to know ; at this time you need me, and that need, 
makes me your willing and happy servant ; ask, and it 
shall be given, to the fullest extent of my powers." 

Do you ever hold any communication with Insight 
now? "In a spiritual way as you are with me." 



238 INSIGHT 

Do you not sometimes long to have him back with 
you? "The Father's will is my will." 

Does not the human heart always instinctively long 
for those it loves ? "Not when you learn the lesson that 
is learned here, that there is no 'there.' " 

Is it probable that Insight still thinks of us? "Yes, 
or he would not be 'Insight.' The band of love, of 
which he told us, holds you all still, and we of the Un- 
derstanding should never doubt." 

I do not doubt as I used before Insight taught us 
so many things ! "I see you do not, formerly, I could 
not have sent Trust to bring you, as I now can. The 
reason the light is not always present, is owing to many 
things ; with you, Discernment, it is because your lot is, 
to live, not in your own darkness, but in the darkness 
of those whom you are bringing with you, and whom 
the Father has committed to your keeping." 

I would stay there forever for their sakes ! "Yes, 
but that is not necessary, only a little while will be 
enough; without this you could come into a most per- 
fect light, but wait with patience, and we shall all re- 
joice together. You, and your loved ones, and more, 
than even we, who see with a clearer vision, can have 
any idea of ; never fear. Trust, and Trust will always 
bring you to Tranquility." 

How does Endurance get into the place she des- 
cribes, and where is it? "She goes into her own spirit- 
ual light, where what she desires, becomes visible to her, 
and she sees you, because you are more really there, 
than you are to her natural eyes." 

Why am I not conscious of being there with Endur- 
ance? "You have the consciousness, but cannot see it, 



INSIGHT 239 

as you might wear the purest white garment, which 
would be invisible to you in material darkness." 

There must be two of me ! "Two of you ? There is 
a countless multitude of you — you are each of your 
brothers, you are in yourself all humanity but God 
Himself did not choose to make all things in one day, 
can we not wait in humble reverent obedience, and fol- 
low His example." 

But we are so ignorant, and we do not want to make 
irremediable mistakes ! "You will be kept from all 
such — even the lowest and least advanced of our 
brothers, cannot make mistakes for which there is not 
a sure and certain remedy; with them it is still the 
evening, the day has not yet begun, but our Father's 
own hand has separated the darkness from the light, 
and all are sure to come into the perfect day." 

You do not know what Insight's teachings have been 
to us ! "I do know, for am I not one of his disciples 
also." 

I have founded my church on his teaching! "Found 
not on any other man's foundation, get down to your 
own, you have one as sure and steadfast as any of your 
Father's children." 

This is the teaching of the old mystics ! "It is more, 
it is the teaching of the divine in man." 

Do you see Courage? "All the time; there is no sad- 
ness on that grand face, for her angel is a son of the 
most high, and is one who will make valiant fight in 
many worlds, in the great battle that is to be waged for 
that kingdom, to which our band belongs. I see what 
will be accomplished in the near future, not as you 
count days, but in the future of our race, and that 



240 INSIGHT 

soldier will be a leader, who will bring many into the 
King's house." 

Is the angel of "Aspiration" also with us? "Yes; 
he is often with us, but he has not yet arrived at the 
state I represent for his charge is still striving, and 
the soul of such as she, must touch life at every point, 
but she is very happy, and for her, work is better than 
tranquility. To make up the perfect whole, we each 
represent some attribute of the great Creator, and she, 
and I, though on the same plane of the understanding, 
are working toward the same centre, from different 
starting points." 

Will you explain what you mean by a starting point? 
"Think of a vast circle, from every point of which, 
God sends a soul, travelling towards the centre which is 
Himself, and you will see how some are nearer than 
others." 

Why did God send his children out to the circum- 
ference of this circle? "God thought, and the centre 
widened into the circle, — why, no soul shall know, till 
it again reaches its starting point, and is one with 
God. Love, love, love must be the why — " 

Is humanity now going to, or from this centre? 
"Most of our race is on its return, though there are 
still some souls who hover on the edge, and all the dark- 
ness comes from the outer worlds, but we must wait 
for the brother, as we would leave the light of home 
and go out into the darkness, for a little child, who 
cried for our help and the comfort and warmth of our 
human love ; so do not want always to be in the light, 
love better thy brother's darkness, than thine own light, 
and thy light will shine all the brighter when the 



INSIGHT 241 

brother's lamp which he illumines from yours, is added 
to it. Do you not see that even in the earthly lights 
which are a shadow of the spiritual, you cannot take 
from a lamp what you give to another, therefore do the 
Master's work and let your light shine." 

When you speak of the Master and Christ, do you 
mean Jesus ? "I mean the Christ that came to our race, 
and was incarnated in the body of Jesus, and what I 
see with my spiritual vision is the spiritual body with 
which he comes to all eager waiting souls." 

Then you see no higher manifestation of God than 
Christ ? "None ; we know not what shall be, but this is 
too dazzling for mortal vision. He represents only what 
is possible for our race to attain where it now is — " 

Can you see much more clearly than we, what hu- 
manity all means? "Not much. I can see more than I 
could when on your plane, but only Christ can see it 
all ; having attained all, he contains all ; and therefore 
knows all ; our duty now is to look to him as our model, 
and when the higher things are possible, more light 
will come; even his exaltation, was only possible by his 
willingness to go again to the outer circle, and we 
must be willing to do the same, for every brother must 
come with us, salvation was not offered to the individual, 
but to the race. Would a man be happy to live in a 
palace, without the members of his body, even the feet 
and the hands must go with him, or he prefers to live 
in a hovel, and have his body entire." 

Will you answer my mental question? "Yes, part of 
humanity represent the imagination of the natural 
man, but your day dreams, in which you see unutterable 
things must be followed by a return to the common 



242 INSIGHT 

things of life and so with us, we go for a moment into 
a great city of life and love, but we return again, for 
many that we love we left behind, and we cannot live 
without them." 

Do you ever think of returning to live in a body 
again ? "I think of it, as a young person with you, does 
of death. I know it must come, but I do not think of 
it, as a personal thing, because it is not my nature to 
trouble myself about what is God's law, I leave it all in 
His hands." 

Would it be possible for you to send Insight our 
grateful love? "You can send it yourselves, he is not 
out of the spiritual atmosphere, by which good souls 
send their thoughts and their love and their prayers ; 
each soul makes its own atmosphere, and yours is of 
the same substance, as those much nearer the centre, 
for you love, and that is all." 

Is Succor with you ? "Yes ; she is with us always 
now, for her work which she elected to do, on the lower 
planes of the spiritual world is finished. She is here 
with us, and she says to your angels, who bow before the 
great love that shines in her face, all shall be well with 
those whom we all love." 

Succor, do you still see those whom we love, in the 
spiritual world? "I know of all my children, not as I 
once did, by personal contact, but in a better and surer 
way, by the pressure of the band that is in our Father's 
hand, and which I feel is drawing us closer together." 

Do you see the angel of Devotion? "Yes ; she is also 
with us ; and her angel's face is full of what her name 
signifies ; and there is nothing higher in all our band 
than this signification denotes, for willing service, 
prompted by love, is as near the divine as we can come." 



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Devotion has grown more than any of us under In- 
sight's teaching! "She did' not have as far to go, my 
child, to become as a little one, willing to learn — this 
is from Succor." 

May we soon come to you again, Tranquility? "If 
any of your circle has a real difficulty I shall always be 
ready and willing to do what I can, but each must work 
out his own salvation ; and do not learn to depend on me, 
or any one. You needed me now, and so you found me, 
but it will not be often so, and if you come without a 
great need, Trust will not be ready to take you by 
the hand, and you may stumble by the way." 

Now we must say, Good-bye, and God bless you. 
"That is the best you can say ; and I am told, that it is 
the salutation of those nearest the centre, and so, God 
bless you and keep you, and give his Angels charge 
concerning you. 

COMMUNICATION XXXII. 

"We, Tranquility and Succor, welcome you with glad- 
ness, you have come on the wave of love, that sweeps 
over your earth and reaches to our shore. I mean the 
feeling of universal good fellowship which comes, from 
the idea of the Christ born into our race." 

Do you keep Christmas day as an anniversary ? "Not 
as you think; we keep all days, as you keep this, for 
with us, the Christ life is uppermost; I see what you 
have in your thought, it is sl different day with us, but 
it is made so by you, for we feel the wave of love, and 
it is always known and recognized by us." 

Does Christ ever appear to you, in the form? "Yes ; 



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what would seem form to you, and which is so, also to 
our spiritual vision." 

Since many good people have not believed in Jesus 
Christ, why is it said to be absolutely necessary to do 
so? "Because it is in the flesh, that the divine seed 
must grow ; and belief means that growth ; many believe 
not having seen; and on such the Master pronounced 
a special blessing." 

How is it about the Jews? "They do accept him in 
a spiritual way, and it is not necessary for them to 
believe in the man Jesus, if they have the growth of the 
divine Christ in their souls. The letter deceives, so al- 
ways strive to reach the spirit, that will never allow you 
to suppose any man is outside of the Father's love and 
blessing." 

When we leave this world do we take our evil ten- 
dencies with us? "You leave in each world, what be- 
longs to it; in the world of matter, you leave matter, 
in the next world, you leave your evil tendencies, and all 
that the flesh has generated in your earth life. * * * * 
Each world has form, according to its kind, and your 
thoughts and desires, build homes as lasting as your 
hands, and they remain to show what manner of man 
you were. Discernment sees what I mean, and you no 
more take the identical bodies you leave, in the spiritual 
world, than you do the identical particles of matter 
you leave, in the material world, when the time comes 
for you to take on an objective existence again." 

Does growth take place, as well in the spiritual 
world, as in objective life? "All goes to make up the 
whole being, but it is in the objective life, that most of 
the work is done." 



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Is not the spirituality acquired during subjective 
life added to the soul, when it comes to earth again? 
"It is not added, it has become a part of her ; the soul 
in descending onto your earth, takes the same road, by 
which it ascended, this is the law, for there is but one 
way, and that is the only pathway from where we now 
are, to your earth." 

Does the true ego, after it goes into the higher 
heaven, ever come in contact with its lower principles 
again? "No more than it does with the matter that 
forms your earthly bodies." 

Where have those lower tendencies been all that time? 
"They have been used over and over again, as matter 
has been on your plane, and the soul to re-incarnate 
takes what belongs to it, by the same law that it finds 
its true place when it reaches your earth; 4 no man 
liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself,' all be- 
long to humanity, and thus the necessity for leaving in 
that world as clean a record as possible, for you will be 
obliged to take of the general fund, and you can help 
to make it good, or evil as you choose." 

Do we not take on a new body immediately after leav- 
ing this world? "You are sometimes a long time, in the 
process of unclothing, and the new body is the one that 
underlies all, of which we have been speaking; and 
which to the one newly born, seems like a new body for 
it has been concealed from his earthly vision. Do you 
not see that the child just born into your world comes 
with a body that till that moment was concealed by 
other bodies?" 

Do you know what we mean when we speak of the 
'Akasa'? "I do not see clearly, unless you mean the 



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ocean of love, in which we all move and have our being." 

Does this "ocean of love," correspond to the atmos- 
phere in which we breathe? "Your thought seems too 
material, it is the love of God Himself and we cannot 
know of what it is formed, until we ourselves are nearer 
the divine source, it is the atmosphere in which all crea- 
tion exists, and here, we breathe it without the exhala- 
tions of earth, and untainted by any effort to make an 
atmosphere for ourselves. It is the medium in which 
everything, from the lowest form of matter to the 
prayer of the highest archangel reaches God." 

Is it not possible for us also to breathe that atmos- 
phere? "You breathe it if you so will, but on earth 
each soul prefers his will to God's will, and tries to 
live in an atmosphere of his own making, and as in a 
crowded room each one pollutes the air, so on your 
plane, you breathe your brother's atmosphere, and not 
till all men are in accord can your atmosphere be pure 
as we have it here." 

Is it true that everything acts through this medium 
by means of vibration? "Yes, all the activities which 
you call nature's laws, and which we call God's love, 
find their means of action in this ocean of love ; you may 
call it by any name you choose, but always remember it 
is the pulsation of the great heart of God." 

Is the angel of Seeker with us? "Yes; she always 
comes into your circle for she never leaves yow *Dis- 
cernment,' and as long as she keeps by you, all is well 
with her charge, who is yet too much absorbed with his 
earthly life to come alone into our sphere." 

To what society does he belong? "Seeker* s place in 
the Perfect Man, is one that directs the understand- 



INSIGHT 247 

ing — Intuition would be the name you would give the 
quality." 

Seeker wishes to know whether his angel is satisfied 
with him? "Sometimes; your best self should be always 
happy, but a diamond cannot shine in the dark, and 
you on your plane have the power to shut out the light 
from this high spirit, for he lives in your atmosphere. 
Renunciation is what Seeker must learn." 

Must we not all learn that? "Yes, but the renuncia- 
tion of which I speak is different for each one of you ; 
what is a temptation for one, is none for another." 

When we die, can we not demand to be taken to you, 
as we do on these occasions? "You can make that 
demand as a beggar might ask to be taken to a King, 
but here, where all things are seen in their true pro- 
portions, you will not make such a demand, for you will 
seek what you really want. And then too, you must 
come alone, as you must be born alone into your world — 
no one can help you — " 

I thought you told us we were met by loving souls 
who cared for us ? "At first you are, but you must re- 
member the process of being born is not instantaneous, 
but many states must be gone through, and if in the 
end you desire to be where we are, you will come without 
a guide, for you will enter into your own kingdom, and 
not come as a visitor, as you do now. If any one of 
you represents in himself what you do collectively, you 
will come to us at once, as soon as the new birth takes 
place." 

Can you tell us anything of the race behind our sun ? 
"It is one perfected race grown and perfected in an- 
other system than ours — they made this sun, from 



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which we have all come, as we shall make another, when 
the last brother is brought into the light, and all can 
unite in hymning one song of praise to the God in whose 
love we live, and shall live countless ages, after our 
perfection takes place." 

Is our material sun the counterpart of the spiritual 
Sun behind it? "Yes, it is the body of which the soul 
or spirit is the perfected race. It has no more power 
of itself, than any other mere matter, but the love that 
is reflected through it, by its soul, makes it the material 
fountain of all light and life for many planets. All 
the universe is formed in the same way; and thought 
loses itself in trying to grasp the idea of the great cen- 
tral sun, from which all these others take their life and 
light. We are told that even behind the great central 
sun lies the Spirit from which its light proceeds, and 
the highest creations only behold and know of this body, 
for the real essence can never be known till all shall be 
fulfilled." 

Can you tell us anything of "Insight?" "Only that 
he tells me he is working to further this great plan, and 
he holds himself most blessed in this work, and that his 
nature is not changed, he loves us, and cares for us as 
he has always done, and that he, and we, and you, are 
still one." 

COMMUNICATION XXXIII. 

Present: Endurance and Discernment. 

"Be calm, I am Trust, and I will take you to Tran- 
quility." 



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"I, Tranquility, have been waiting and expecting you, 
do you not begin to feel my atmosphere?" 

If we could go into your sphere, should we be able to 
see you in the form ? "Yes ; there is nothing that shuts 
us out from each other but state, for place does not 
exist in the sense you give it, between spirits on the same 
plane." 

The reason we desire to see you, is for the sake of the 
inspiration it would be to us ? "It would not act in that 
way; as looking at your physical sun obscures your 
earthly vision, so, seeing into a spiritual light, would 
blind you to your duties on earth." 

Why is it not legitimate for us to seek to gain 
knowledge about the spiritual world? "That knowl- 
edge is not of the value you suppose for each soul must 
grow by itself, and in the soil of its proper place ; some 
of the things that have been seen and heard in the spir- 
itual worlds, have been falsely reported, and there is 
much ignorance among men regarding them." 

Do you suppose that "Insight" ever thinks of us 
personally? "He does without doubt." 

Can we attract him to us by thinking intensely of 
him? "An intense thought towards the highest would 
best create that union ; when you are doing your work 
from the highest motives, you come nearest to him, 
your work is just as important as his, and that will add 
dignity to it in your mind, if you will always think of it 
as a part of God's plan." 

Is it always right for us to try to heal physical suf- 
fering through spiritual law? "Yes; that is always 
well, for you must know that physical suffering is 
against God's law, and that if your powers can heal you 



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are working in accordance with His divine purpose." 

Why should God wait for us to ask, before he heals? 
"God works by law, and you do not put yourself in his 
place. You only lessen the evil on your earth, by your 
love and sympathy for the brother, and by so doing 
lift the cloud that man's ignorance has thrown up be- 
tween himself, and the sun that is always shining, and 
always ready to illumine. Your desire to heal is a 
prayer, but you must not be discouraged if you do not 
always see the results of your well doing. You can let 
in the sun-light, and though it may not fall just where 
you expect and desire, it falls somewhere, and some 
brother feels its benign influence." 

Are there many persons living today who have been 
re-born ? "Yes ; many, but do not confuse growth with 
rebirth. You call a child born when it comes into your 
world, but you know it will be many days before he is 
conscious of it, and many years before he can begin to 
make use of that consciousness ; for growth must take 
place before manhood is attained." 

How can we hasten illumination? "How can you 
hasten the consciousness of your infant? You cannot; 
according to the law of its being, it must grow little by 
little, day by day, and so with spiritual growth, it must 
follow the same law, and to try to hasten, is only to 
retard. As with your little child, you follow what you 
know regarding food, and the surroundings you have 
learned are necessary for its wellbeing, so in your 
spiritual growth, follow what you know of the Christ 
life and day by day take of that exhaustless fountain 
of love, and you will grow as the child grows, without 
thought, and without knowledge of how it is done. Go 



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down into the depths of your brothers' life, there you 
will find your best nourishment ; it is as good air to the 
physical life; try it more and more and all will be as 
you desire. I see a good thought in the mind of En- 
durance about the community of life — as you have been 
told, no man liveth to himself, so do not shut yourself 
out from those about you, true progress was never 
made in that way." 

Do you know what an impulse seems to be drawing 
people together at this time? "Yes ; because till that 
took place on your plane, you could not have reached 
me as you do now; the first impulse came from God, 
through the spiritual worlds to man, and now it is be- 
ginning to return; as you can form currents of mate- 
rial things on your earth as of water and electricity, 
which make their circuit by the same great law." 

And the greater the number of souls the stronger 
the current I suppose? "Without doubt, the size of the 
channel with you determines the quantity ; with spirit- 
ual things, coming from God the fountain is inex- 
haustible, and the large number of souls makes the 
flow the more apparent. You are the receptacle into 
which the divine flows, the will of man is the channel." 

"I have a word for Acceptance ; he must accept the 
least of God's children with all their ignorances, and 
all they bring with them. This is necessary before he 
can see into the higher things. See the light in the 
brother's eyes before you can hope to see the light in 
the Father's face; doing this will help him more than 
anything else. When we cannot discover the God that 
lies hidden in our brother's soul, the God within ourselves 
is hidden under our own misdoing. What we see in 



252 INSIGHT 

others, we must see through the very attributes we 
ascribe to them, weakness sees weakness, strength sees 
strength, virtue and love see their own image, and when 
the God within us can look out with unclouded vision, 
he sees the God within the brother." 

Can you tell us what argument we could use, to 
prove the immortality of the soul to one who doubts 
it? "What can you say to a blind man of color; can 
you not perceive that it is a thing each one must see for 
himself! From my point of view I see only soul, and 
spirit, and I cannot tell you how to convince any man 
of this evident vision ; though one came from the dead, 
the unprepared could not be convinced." 

Does it prove an injury to any one not to have be- 
lieved in the immortality of the soul if he does the best 
he can in this life? "No one can live beyond his ca- 
pabilities, and nothing can really hurt our Father's 
children who do the best according to their development. 
Live your life before all men, and let them see that you 
live it from the motive of bringing it into accord with 
the Christ life ; that is your highest work and your 
mission. And now God be with you, as He will, for 
it is God living in you, and not yourself. Your doubts 
and your troubles brought you to me at this time, and 
I hope I have given you some of the great peace that 
fills my own soul." 

COMMUNICATION XXXIV. 

Present : Endurance and Discernment. 

"You are with me, for some time I have felt your 
desires. What can Tranquility give you?" 



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Is is wrong for us to continue to come to you for 
knowledge? "Not wrong, but not strong." 

It is because we are weak that we feel the need of 
your help? "You have often been told that as a man 
thinketh, so he is ; think, you are strong and you shall 
be able to remove all the mountains of your doubts as 
if they were nothing; the help which I can give you is 
little, for every man standeth or falleth to himself, as 
to his own inner growth I mean ; we on our side can 
make the conditions better, but it is only by our good 
influences, and though I am willing and happy to have 
you come to me, I can after all only give you a purer 
atmosphere in which to breathe. I cannot breathe for 
you." 

Would it better for our growth if we gave up coming 
to you? "I think perhaps it might." 

Shall we stop now and not try to write any more? 
"No, because as a little child learning to walk wishes to 
see and feel the mother's hand, so you, at this moment 
wish to lean on me, and how can I let you go?" 

Does not the love we feel for you make it right for 
us to seek you? "It helps me, and all of God's crea- 
tures — no love is lost, so love me, dear sisters and with 
my love meeting yours, we will try and surround some 
poor ones in need of love, and make them more equal 
to the path before them." 

We have a few questions to ask you today ? "Would 
I were 'Insight,' then I might really help you, but I 
will do the best I can." 

Does all prayer reach God directly, that is, does he 
hear it or does it have to be transmitted to Him through 
other channels ? "It reaches Him directly, if it is purely 



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spiritual, if mixed with material wants, there are those 
appointed to care for such needs, but in the end all 
things are given by Him no matter how they reach us," 

Is all earnest prayer answered? "Always in the 
spirit, though perhaps not in the letter." 

When one prays for light to see one's duty, in in- 
dividual cases, does one always receive it consciously? 
"If the prayer is really for light, light comes, but to 
the consciousness unprepared to receive it, it may seem 
as darkness, from being too dazzling for mortal vision, 
but you may always as really trust our Father as you 
would trust your dearest earthly friend." 

Can prayer help the spiritual condition of another 
soul? "Yes; that prayer is always answered, perhaps 
not immediately, for the soul is sometimes not ready; 
but it will always help, and that is the highest form of 
prayer, for it is most in accordance with the will of 
God, who desires the life and health of all his creatures." 

If a person dies full of bitterness and hatred towards 
one who has wronged him, what is his condition in the 
Spiritual world? "Sometimes all that hatred is left 
behind, if not, the soul must outgrow it, before it can 
make any progress, for hatred is a disease that always 
obstructs growth." 

Can we help such a soul, by praying for it, after it 
has left the earth? "Yes; prayer is not a thing of 
time or space, it is as pervasive as the love of God ; for 
it is part of that love; live in it yourselves, and if, by 
your sympathy and attraction you can draw your 
brother to your side, he also> can receive of its curative 
power." 

When Jesus told his disciples to go and heal the sick, 



INSIGHT 255 

what means did he intend them to use? "He meant lit- 
erally what he said, all material and all spiritual dis- 
ease, and they received from him the power to put his 
words into action, but this power only came to them in 
proportion as they lived the Christ life, and in propor- 
tion as they were able to inspire others with their own 
faith." 

What system of thought did they use in their heal- 
ing? "They applied a system of life, but life includes 
thought, and thought was the immediate agency." 

Since they seem to have been specially fitted for their 
work we can never hope to do what they did? "Do not 
say that, for all that has been done is possible to you, 
and you must use your present attainment for what it 
is worth, for it is only by doing the little, well, that you 
become worthy to be stewards of the greater." 

Should we go out of our way to help others, or wait 
for our work to come to us ? "Do you know where your 
way begins or ends? In whatever path you find an- 
other wandering, there is your way ; never be inactive, 
that is death; work, and seek work, even if you have 
to descend as Jesus did into the 'hells' to find it; all 
ways are ours, for we are part of all." 

Is all disease caused by sin? "What you call dis- 
ease, is caused by the breaking of law, but it is not al- 
ways sin, because sin is the willingly and intelligently 
choosing evil, instead of good, and our race is not yet 
ready to do that." 

Have some persons power to cure all kinds of disease 
through the mind? "This will come, man must learn to 
use this power which has always existed and is now 
visible to a few advanced souls." 



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Already some individuals have performed wonderful 
cures ? "Yes ; but you were speaking of disease at 
large, and of humanity as a whole. There are always 
two elements necessary in this process, one in the healer 
and the other in the one diseased, and where these meet 
the disease vanishes." 

The gift of healing given to the disciples, was a 
special gift suddenly bestowed, was it not? "Yes, but 
why were they chosen from out all that were in Judea? 
Was it not because they too like Jesus, were ready, by 
their growth in former lives for this new and divine 
life — Jesus by the power the Christ life gave him, per- 
ceived in them, and they in a lesser degree saw in him, 
what had until then been unknown in its fulness to our 
race though others had often caught the same divine 
spark, and lit from it a fresh fire that still burns in the 
hearts of millions of men." 

We are all interested in studying the theory of heal- 
ing. "Yes ; and like everything else, it can only be 
learned in the doing; all the study and theory in the 
world is worth less than one act of real giving. Un- 
selfish sympathy is the great power that is now neces- 
sary to open up a new era in the history of our race, 
and Penetration and Renunciation and you, my sisters, 
are all aware of this great truth, and with a great band 
of workers of whom you know not, you are daily draw- 
ing closer and closer the bond that is to bring all men 
toward a recognition of the universal brotherhood. 
Some whom you least suspect are doing this great 
work, so take heed not to despise even the least of our 
Father's children, however useless or childish his work 
may seem in your eyes." 



INSIGHT %0 i 

Are there other teachers like "Insight" among you? 
"Yes ; there are more than you can conceive of, for each 
has his helper and all the myriads of mankind on this 
side, have also their guides and teachers ; we have those 
who come to us from the higher heaven and better than 
all we have the power to see the faces of the guardian 
angels in many spheres, and even to look into their 
faces, is an inspiration and a help to higher life. 
These are the great multitude who have come up out 
of the same sorrows and tribulations as those of our 
own race, and can teach us just what we need to know; 
listen to the counsel which speaks to you from your 
inner self, and the true heavenly wisdom will be given 
to your knowledge." 

We are always listening but we are not sure we hear. 
"Yes ; you hear and you obey ; do not be discouraged, 
each discouragement is but an indication that you have 
made a step upward, and you must not expect to be 
satisfied for every step forward enlarges your prospect, 
and gives you a higher conception and a greater desire 
for good." 

We long to hear the voice of the Master when he 
stands at the door and knocks ! "The door is already 
open in your soul, and your very discontent is caused 
by the feeling of your own unworthiness to receive Him; 
one's self can do nothing, open the door and the Christ 
will do the rest ; be humble, and do not want to be hostess 
to so great a guest. If a king came to your home and 
brought his own attendants, should you want to force 
on him your own incomplete service? One must be 
empty, before one can be filled anew with the divine 
life, this is the hardest lesson to be learned ; go and do 



258 INSIGHT 

the works of the Christ life and when your day is done, 
and you return to yourself, for rest and comfort, you 
will find that home made beautiful without your help 
and you can sit for a little space perhaps and enter 
into the joy of your Lord." 

Will you not pray for all those we love, and are try- 
ing to help ? "Yes ; I will with my whole heart, for while 
all are dear to me, those whom you love are especially 
so, through your love for them and for us, who have 
been given the privilege of sharing in your teaching 
and watching your growth. You will I am sure all grow 
in the true knowledge, and that will be my greatest 
reward for the little I have been able to help you. Your 
own feet must tread the path, but if my hand can guide 
you, it is always willing and anxious to be of service." 

Now good-bye and peace be with you? "It is the 
atmosphere in which I live and the only one where 
Tranquility can be found. I am one of you, if that 
is your password, and I repeat peace be with you, and 
all whom you love or desire to serve." 

COMMUNICATION XXXV. 

Present : Endurance and Discernment. 

"You are welcome. I was expecting you for your 
need reached my consciousness — I am Tranquility." 

We have some questions to ask you today. "The most 
direct path, by which higher things may be reached, is 
always in work for the brother. I feel there is a place 
in your souls for new light, and that place must have 
been made by giving." 



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How can it be wise for us to teach others, when we do 
not know what truth is ? "You can only know what you 
have embodied in your life, and that teaches even when 
you know it not, but give to him who asks, is the com- 
mand of the Master; and what he said must be our 
guide." 

Will you not tell us of the Master? "He is the great 
central sun of our spiritual world, and from him we 
obtain all our life and light. Open your heart to him. 
He must be perceived through that, not through your 
intellect. You must know Christ, as you must know 
you have had sufficiency of earthly food, by the feeling 
of possession, but do not think you can acquire him 
once for all. Like food, he must be continuously re- 
ceived, and as we appropriate him, we hunger for 
more." 

I am always hungry. "No ; you are not always 
hungry, you have your moments of appropriation, and 
you must learn to recognize them, perhaps you confuse 
this, or what you suppose to be this spiritual hunger, 
with bodily sensation, it requires practice to distin- 
guish between them while on your plane, and remember, 
dear little sister, you are yet a 'babe in Christ.' You 
are both very dear to me, for I can see since I first knew 
you, how you have approached my state, which signi- 
fies how to suffer and be still." 

How can we thank you for all you are to us ? "Look 
through me to the one Source, and there we all can 
meet in loving adoration." 

How far do you think it is well for us to conform to 
the usages of society in our world? "A great teacher 
has said, 'be all things to all men,' and thereby bring 



260 INSIGHT 

all men to Christ. All men are brothers, and there is 
no up, no down with those you would help on their own 
plane, and you will by doing so, bring them to yours." 

But how is it possible to teach worldly flippant people 
spiritual things ? "I see your thought ; are not the 
things such people are interested in like the playthings 
of a little child? Use them, if you can thereby gain 
their love and sympathy, and attract them to you, for 
as I have said before you are the eyes by which they 
must see." 

But suppose we should be drawn in to care for such 
things again? "You will not, you are too wise now for 
those things to attract you as they once did, and you 
need not fear; your angels are willing for they see you 
can no longer be tempted by mere shadows, having once 
tasted the substance. Always do each action for the 
love of the brother, put self aside, and you will be led. 
I cannot give you food for next week, it is our daily 
bread we are taught to pray for; be sure that even in 
your endeavors to live the highest life, you are not liv- 
ing for yourself, that must always be the test by 
which to measure your actions." 

Do you know how many people there are today com- 
ing into these same truths that you teach us? "The 
work of our society is for that purpose; and much of 
this very thing is the result of what the understanding 
has done to tear away the veil and let in the light." 

Is the secret society of which you said we form a part 
under the control of high spiritual beings? "It is not 
under the control, it is part of the highest spiritual 
power, and it works harmoniously with the highest at- 
tribute of God Himself." 



INSIGHT &61 

Is this writing by Endurance inspirational? "Yes; 
it is — all she writes is latent in herself, and she is able 
to give it form by the help of us all, you, and many 
others who work with her, and help her. You must 
always bear in mind that Endurance is not alone, she is 
part of a whole, (as we all are,) and she only gives words 
to our ideas. Articulate speech is part of your bodily 
expression, but it is not all, though without it you could 
not convey your thoughts, nor put them into words, so 
in the society of the Understanding there are many to 
whom it has committed this part of its work, for each 
society of the perfect man, is a perfect man in itself." 

Do you mean to convey the idea that there are many 
who write as we do? "Not apparently in the same way, 
but wherever spiritual ideas are put into words, it is 
done by the part of the perfect man to which you be- 
long." 

Will you tell us something of the secret society you 
once alluded to? "It is secret, but the time has now 
come when the truth must be proclaimed on the house- 
tops ; and to us it is given to make all men aware of this 
hitherto great secret, that all may become Christs, and 
that all must become so, before the great end is ac- 
complished." 

Can you tell us any thing about language, and how 
it originated. Did mankind invent it? "All God's 
gifts are latent in his works ; man has only to evolve 
toward them. When man grew out of his animal soul, 
language was waiting for him and he has taken of the 
divine seed, and from it has grown many flowers, some 
beautiful, some destined to decay, for, as he grows, he 
will drop those that only relate to his lower nature, and 



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learn forever new words, by which to voice his clearer 
perception of the divine." 

Is this all you can tell us of the origin of language? 
"Yes, as I have just told you, the seed was in the human 
soul, and was God-given, and man had only to use what 
he found, as he has used all the seeds of the more mate- 
rial world, and by the using learned their powers and 
properties, and what they were meant to express." 

When we die, shall we have to learn to use the lan- 
guage of your world? "You already know it, for your 
soul has a language, as well as your body, and you often 
use it, in music or in poetry where the deepest things 
are conveyed by analogy. With us, we do not need 
many forms of expression that are necessary with you, 
for our thoughts are always harmonious. If you could 
hear our articulate speech, it would seem to you like 
the most beautiful and perfect music." 

May we ask to see Succor today? "She stands by 
my side, and is happy to be of use to those she holds 
so dear." 

Can she tell us whether she continues to see father 
and Aspiration? "They hold this same kind of com- 
munion with me, but I no longer go to them. I can 
bring their angels here and we will hold converse with 
them as I see you desire — they are here." 

Will you ask father if he is satisfied that I have car- 
ried out the wishes he expressed? "Yes; he knows and 
is happy that you are still willing to be led by him, 
for he believes that during his life with you on earth, 
his desire was always for your highest good, and he 
has not changed, and is glad you are willing to rec- 
ognize this love and care, which still binds him and his 



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children together. He is wiser my child 1 than you and 
you did well to be governed by him in this instance." 

Was Aspiration not disappointed that we could not 
see her again? "Not when she fully understood the 
danger it was, both to her, and to you ; she is growing 
every day in the wisdom of obedience and cannot suf- 
fer except when she does not conform to the laws that 
govern her new state." 

Can you tell us anything of the daughter of Mrs. C. ? 
"I will see. She is very happy in her present state, and 
is being led and cared for by those best suited to her 
needs. 'Penetration' should not grieve for what she 
could not prevent, even with her great love and knowl- 
edge — the soul of her child had finished its work for the 
time in the place she left on your earth, and her growth 
demanded a new sphere." 

Then it is not intended that everyone should live, as 
"Insight" said, a hundred years? "Not under the 
present conditions ; it will be different in the future, 
when mankind comes into knowledge, but now, to some 
souls, life, on your plane, is not needed, except for a very 
short interval, for they have the power of living through 
all the necessary emotions in a very few of your years. 
In regard to the soul of whom you speak, she died, as 
you call it, according to law, but how, or why, I cannot 
say. I have not the insight into these deep things our 
great teacher had." 

How do the sins one commits affect the higher self? 
"They drive it away. The higher self is the spiritual 
soul which you both are developing, and when you sin, 
that self is not affected by it, because before the sin 
can reach her, she has left the human soul. Whenever 



264* INSIGHT 

you feel dissatisfied with your own acts, it is your high- 
er self that makes you so, and then you are most con- 
scious of her; no birth can take place without pangs, 
and in her effort to be born into your human soul, you 
feel the grossness of your own nature; but be happy 
when you thus suffer, for you shall some day have joy, 
that a man is born into the world." 

Do you know anything of "Insight"? "I know that 
he is supremely happy in his work, and I have com- 
munications from him, telling me of the great wonders 
in which he is permitted to take part. I should like to 
make you a sharer in these beautiful messages, but I 
do not know how to' convey them to you ; they deal with 
such great and secret things, I do not always under- 
stand them myself; but this I can tell you, he has 
spoken of you, as lov^d members of our society and says 
the work you are doing is as much a part of the great 
plan as any he is permitted to perform." 

Did not "Insight" tell us he had to pass through a 
period of infancy and childhood ? "Yes ; but in his 
stage of progression, one day is as a thousand years, 
and from what he tells us, he is already in full posses- 
sion of the faculties necessary for his work." 

What should we all have been without "Insight"? 
"Yes ; without insight we are nothing, what he repre- 
sents to you and me, is all we have to be thankful for; 
do not however give the thanks to the instrument but 
to the great Source, this you remember, is what he al- 
ways taught us." 

How does the angel of "Acceptance" look today? 
"She is radiant, for in the soul of her charge, the new 
birth is struggling, and though the human soul may 



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feel and suffer the necessary pangs, the growth is 
there, and his angel wears a face that tells of many 
conquests, and much enlightenment." 

How can one explain Paul's words ; about the sub- 
ordination of women, did he not know, all souls must 
be equal? "He did, and I cannot believe so clear a vis- 
ion could have been thus obscured — but with the gold 
must come ever the alloy ; Understanding must see be- 
hind words, and be able to separate the true from the 
false, though Paul uttered words that could not be 
true, that need not make the truths he did perceive, un- 
acceptable to us ; appropriate truth wherever you find 
it, it is many sided, and no mind can see it all, but to 
one, is given one side, and to another the opposite, and 
not till the thoughts of mankind are brought into har- 
monious unity, will all the truth be known." 

Now we shall have to leave you, but may we come 
again? "When you come empty, from having given, 
you will always find me ; to both of you was I necessary 
at this time, for you have been giving of your spiritual 
gifts freely, and needed to be filled. Succor who is still 
here knows of your progress, for she is very wise, as 
wise as good, and when you grow in knowledge you will 
be able to hold again the familiar converse with her, 
that her children held when on earth. She says with 
me, God bless you." 

COMMUNICATION XXXVI. 

Present: Endurance and Discernment. 

Tranquility : "Peace be with you. Did we not agree 
that this should be our password?" 



266 INSIGHT 

This will be our last interview for Endurance and I 
are soon to part? "Do not think we shall be separated, 
we shall be together in the future, as we have been since 
you first gave form to our intercourse." 

We would like to ask you whether it is true, that 
matter is only an illusion? "It is not an illusion, except 
when wrong thinking makes it so. If man can bring 
himself to see what you call matter, from God's stand- 
point, it will become to him a reality. You are apt to 
think creation is an enemy, because you are not in ac- 
cord with your best selves. As soon as you are, all 
things become good — and all good is friendly and is 
beautiful to the eyes opened to perceive it, Creation, 
that is, the visible universe, is good and perfect in 
God's thought, and as you grow in accord with that 
thought, you will become able to perceive this beauty." 

Can man claim his relation to God, and by so doing 
come into the consciousness of it? "Yes, he can, but 
not by merely claiming it, he must adjust his spiritual 
perceptions to their perfect focus, by doing God's will; 
then he will attain to that Mount of Transfiguration 
where everything will become bright and shining, in 
the beams of the spiritual Sun." 

There are some who claim to be able to cure disease, 
by coming into this relation, with the Divine? "They 
may have arrived at the point when they can see things 
in the light of this Sun ; and each soul can come to this 
mount, but not through others, for each must be led by 
the Christ, within, as John and James were, in the gos- 
pel story, which is given you, as showing these divine 
possibilities." 

I suppose everything is God, except sin? "Yes; all 
is God, but man's will, being part of God, has in it, the 



INSIGHT 267 

power to deviate from the All, and become in itself, an- 
tagonistic to God." 

How can we keep from deviating? "The way has 
been given you in the perfect pattern. Jesus did not 
become the Christ, but through many sorrows and 
temptations, and your way can only be through fol- 
lowing him." 

Did not God intend man to have entire dominion over 
his own body? "Yes, and as soon as you have obtained 
that dominion, you will be able to do what you wish to 
do. The power comes from the desire, because the de- 
sire is born of the power. It is only the circle, looked 
at in one way, and from one side, desire is the cause; 
from the other side, power is the cause and desire, the 
effect." 

Then our bodies are not merely an illusion? "From 
my state, I cannot perceive your bodies, as you cannot 
perceive my spiritual form, but that does not make them 
an illusion, for all things are real, as consciousness 
perceives them, and all things are of God. Your work 
lies with what you perceive, therefore it is your business 
to raise your plane and by so doing you can eliminate 
disease and sin from among you. Every effort to ele- 
vate your own consciousness, and that of the brother, 
is right, for by so doing you put yourself in a position 
to see more of God, and to rise above the absence of God, 
which is error, and disease, and sin. As on a mountain 
top, you see the valley beneath you, in all its beauty, 
and with its imperfections shut out, so by rising above 
the lower nature, you see only good and all the error 
disappears." 

Cannot disease sometimes be healed by bidding it de- 



268 INSIGHT 

part? "If the spirit speaks the word, the lips have no 
such power. Some persons may do this, and when they 
use the word in this way, they have all power ; with you 
as yet, it is too external, but persevere, and the power 
will manifest itself on the lower plane of your material 
senses. Do not forget what the wise Insight taught 
us about growth." 

Why does one sometimes seem to come to an impass- 
able barrier in spiritual progress? "You do not; those 
very obstructions prove that your perceptions are open- 
ing, for in your natural and material state you were 
not sensible of those closed doors. Are you not con- 
scious after one of these experiences, of great light and 
peace? If so, you have passed that barrier, and it is 
only when you reach another, that the feeling returns." 

What definition can you give us of sin? "The love 
of self is the only sin; it is by rising above self that 
we become conscious of sin ; and that consciousness can 
only come to us by perceiving the light; as darkness is 
made visible to your material eyes, by contrast with 
the light. Sin is the deviation the soul has made from 
the straight line back to its centre, from its source." 

Then sin is not altogether an evil? "In one sense 
you are right, for each soul must be free to gain its own 
experience." 

I have sometimes thought this earth may be one of 
the hells. Is this correct? "As much as any other. 
Hell as you think of it, is only the deviation I speak 
of, and hell is not a place, it is a state." 

Is it impossible for you to know anything about sin 
where you are? "The capacity to sin is in my nature, 



INSIGHT 269 

but here the conditions are not favorable to its appear- 
ance." 

Do those personalities who fail to unite their human 
soul with God, during this earth life, return to the con- 
dition of the formless; and lose their individuality? 
"No ; all who have evolved the human soul, of which the 
human body is a symbol, have an eternal existence, 
there is no place outside of His universe, and where 
consciousness is, there is existence. God does not re- 
pent and take back His thought, and after once having 
given it expression, it becomes immortal." 

Is the subjective existence of less developed beings, 
longer or shorter than that of more advanced ones? 
"It depends, we are taught, on the desire of the spirit 
itself; in each case, the spirit is free, and according 
as it chooses it exists in one room or another of the 
Father's house, as best suits its growth and progress. 
I see by the thought in your mind that you think there 
are different degrees of progress in the states you call 
heaven and earth life, but the growth goes on all the 
time, and there is no such thing as absolute rest, for 
rest and inaction mean decay. To each soul there is 
a state in which it is filled to its utmost capacity, and 
the state is heaven or hell to that soul, as its con- 
sciousness makes it." 

Was man a subsequent creation to the animals? 
"God brought to the part of Himself, that He made 
objective to His own consciousness, and which we call 
the spirit of humanity, all the visible universe, and his 
mind, that is to say, the mind of humanity, differentiated 
the matter and made some animal, some vegetable, some 
mineral, as he infused it, more or less, with the life he 



270 INSIGHT 

obtained from God. By this, you must not understand 
man as he is in his fallen state, but the divine spirit 
that originally went out from God, pure as its source. 
This spirit afterwards fell so much under the dominion 
of its own creation, that it became to its own conscious- 
ness, part of that creation, and countless ages were 
necessary before spirit was able again to know of its 
relation to its source ; but with that knowledge, came 
the desire to return to God, and mankind is now on its 
upward path back to the God and the good from which 
it set out. Falling from God it knew nothing of Him. 
I see the thought in your mind, but I cannot say that 
all creation was ever purely matter, for I have not been 
so instructed. In what you call organic matter there is 
the possibility of the highest archangel, for one spark, 
however minute, of the Divine essence can so develop." 

What is the distinction between the organic and in- 
organic kingdoms? "The distinction is not in essence, 
only in degree. There must always have been different 
orders of these degrees, for that organic life exists at 
all, shows that the channel is unbroken between the 
great First Cause and the smallest atom." 

Where does the missing link between the physical 
kingdoms exist? "In the spiritual world; man's eyes 
are being gradually opened on your physical plane to 
the working of God's laws and this missing link will be- 
come visible to him by the gradual unfoldment of his 
spiritual perceptions. Man supposes a physical step 
is always necessary, from one state to another, but 
spiritual growth will enable him to overcome these bar- 
riers, as in the cure of disease, of which you have been 
thinking. The building up of new tissue, step by step, 



INSIGHT 271 

is not necessary, but can take place instantaneously, 
if the spiritual perception and power are present." 

Do you have any communication with Insight? 
"Yes ; and he sends you a message, that, as little chil- 
dren just learning to walk alone, you must be willing 
to walk without his help, for had he been necessary to 
your well being he would have been left as your guide." 

Is Insight a planetary spirit? "I do not know what 
you mean by that, unless it is that his work lies just 
now in the spiritual world, of one of the planets com- 
posing our system. The planetary spirits I think you 
mean, are all from the great spiritual sun, and there 
are none yet from our race. I mean that none of our 
race can become creators alone ; only the united race 
can become a sun, and make planets, and rule worlds." 

Are Acceptance, and Solicitude and Courage with 
us today ? "Yes ; they are all here, all who first gave 
you the power to reach to Insight — and to come into 
the state which he has blessed with his presence and his 
knowledge, is a privilege of itself, and makes all the 
small and passing discouragements of your earthly 
life seem of trivial and transitory importance. The 
an^el of Acceptance looks happy, and above the desires 
that make the feeling of pity that I see in your heart." 

We shall now have to leave you, will you not pray 
for us all? "How can I pray for part of myself? If 
I pray for myself, you, and all who make up the whole 
of which I am only a part, must share in my prayer. 
I will crive to all your circle what I have to give, of the 
peace that fills my soul. If they will receive, tran- 
quilitv shall abide with them. If you know this peace 
of which I speak your bodies will become transparent 



272 INSIGHT 

temples of the Holy Spirit and all that is dark will dis- 
appear in the light that you will carry with you 
wherever you are, and now you must go but do not say 
'Good-bye.' Say, in God's keeping, for that will mean 
eternal union." 

COMMUNICATION XXXVII. 

Why should you seek an outward Sign? Contempla- 
tion and looking inward brings us into the true union, 

Who writes this? "Insight, through Tranquility." 

Why do you say Insight, through Tranquility? 
"Insight has many interviews with us, he also seeks 
you in your hours of quiet communion, and has told me 
that was your surest way." 

We have all been separated so long, now we have 
come together again, we need a few words from you to 
help us. (This interview took place after an interval 
of six months.) "No; never separated, do not allow 
yourself that thought, or think that bodily presence 
constitutes the real 'being together.' " 

You always seem to intimate that we ought not to 
seek this communion? "You can exercise your own will, 
and if you prefer this, I shall do all I can for you." 

Is it well for us all to sit together for concentration ? 
"Yes, it helps you always to reach my plane." 

Do you have the same relation to Insight, and see him 
in the same way you used to dp ? "Not quite in the same 
way, but our intercourse is all we desire." 

Some of us think we have seen Insight ? "Nothing is 
more likely." 

Do you see him constantly? "Often, but always in 



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what you call a vision, which to us, means with our most 
spiritualised sight." 

Visions seem so unsatisfactory and illusive? "They 
seem less so to us, because we are more able to hold 
them, the vision itself may always be seen, but our per- 
ception depends upon our state." 

Do you sometimes see Jesus Christ ? "Yes ; he comes 
to us in his spiritual body, or I should say, in our mo- 
ments of spiritual exaltation, we go to him as you to 
Insight. You too might see the Christ if the spirit 
was within you, for only like can recognise like." 

Is not the spirit growing more rapidly in the world 
now? "Yes ; the spirit is making itself a place, though 
the light is still but a spark in an ocean of darkness. 
In some souls it burns as a steady flame, and there are 
some Christs, now alive among you. The perfect man 
will be made up of all these perfected spirits, and will 
not be complete while one brother remains in darkness." 

To whom do we pray when we say, "Our Father who 
art in Heaven?" "You pray to the Ideal you form in 
your own mind, and the truth of that ideal depends upon 
your advancement in the Christ life, for only the Son 
can know the Father." 

To whom did Jesus understand he prayed? "He 
prayed as all men pray, to his highest conception of 
good; when a human soul of its own volition can call 
that conception Father, he is not far away from that 
Father." 

When we pray, does our Father always know we are 
striving to reach him? "Yes; does not the father al- 
ways know the most inarticulate words of his child, 



274 INSIGHT 

and does he not understand and give more than your 
ignorance would know how to demand." 

Is it right for us to cultivate our psychic powers? 
"Yes, if by that you mean the faculties by which you 
perceive the true from the false, the real from the 
fictitious." 

Has our circle advanced spiritually? "Very much, 
when you last came, you were stopped on the way, and 
only Trust enabled you to reach me, now Love and Hope 
and Gentleness and Faith, bring you where you would 
be." 

Are our names the same? "I do not see but that 
they represent your condition. 'Discernment' and 
Courage, Acceptance and Endurance, Onward and Sol- 
icitude, are words that represent with us, high spiritual 
conditions, and that you do not always live up to your 
fullest possibilities must not make you feel discouraged, 
for there is an ebb and flood always, and in all things, 
material and spiritual." 

Why is this so? "We do not know the why. In all 
stages of existence we must accept what we see is law, 
but we may hope to know the why, if we only persevere, 
for to the Christs is given knowledge." 

What did Insight mean when he said, "Our guardian 
angels keep our higher principles until we are ready 
for them? "All that, was in a measure symbolic. Your 
guardian angels do keep your higher selves, but not in 
the sense of reserving them from you, they only guard 
them until your will is in accord with the truth, and 
then they will be your only self, for you are many, and 
cover and embrace the universe." 

Does not our will emanate from our higher selves? 



INSIGHT 275 

"Not always ; the will can become part of your lower 
selves, else there would be no freedom and no choice. 
The will must have its perfect way, and after trying all 
things must make its own choice." 

Then the Divine in us is subject to growth? "The 
Divine element cannot grow, but it can be servant as 
well as master. The very highest is always, and must 
always be the servant of all beneath it ; I mean, in order 
to win anything, you must descend to its level, and 
God himself has come down into matter, in order to 
bring it back to Himself." 

Is matter evil? "No; there is no evil in matter, ex- 
cept as the perverted will of humanity makes it evil. 
The sin is not in the hand that takes its neighbor's 
good, but in the thought that lies behind in the will." 

Is not matter another form of spirit? "I would not 
call it so, but you can discern that better than I, who 
do not come in contact with what you call matter." 

In point of fact, is there anything in all the universe 
but God? "Nothing but God, and the freedom He has 
given his creatures, and that, is God turned aside from 
truth. God is the Real, the only truth, a gift of God 
must be part of Himself, but He has for his own wise 
purpose given freedom to man, and man has the power 
to turn from the giver, and claim the gift as his own." 

Is there any such thing as evil? "Evil is not in mat- 
ter, not in what you call the natural forces of the uni- 
verse, but only in this plane that man makes, in his 
ignorance, and calls his own, but as soon as his eyes 
are opened he will turn of himself to the light, and the 
God within him will proclaim his true origin." 

Can God cognize evil on this earth? "We are told He 



276 INSIGHT 

cannot. You must not forget the much that has been 
taught you, about His Infinite being, and the many 
degrees of beings between Him and us." 

If we were in a state of sin, could you perceive it? 
"Not at all, nor could you come into this communica- 
tion, for as I have often said, like must perceive like." 

What did Paul mean when he spoke of the Christ 
being formed in him? "He meant the growth of the 
spirit life ; the Christ life was perfectly grown in Jesus ; 
and he is the example that has been given you, to show 
how the same spirit may be perfected in every man." 

We shall now have to leave you, may we come to 
you again soon? "Come, and always feel it is as to a 
father's house." 

COMMUNICATION XXXVIII. 

"There is a new sense developing in mankind, and 
like all his other senses, it must be the result of growth ; 
it is the power to see into the world of reality. Did 
you not ask why some of you had this power and others 
had not? This is 'Tranquility,' to you there has ap- 
peared to be a period of absence, but to me this and 
your former interview seem one, for I had you in my 
thoughts, and your higher selves have continued with 
me." 

On leaving this body, and taking on a spiritual one, 
is it at once full grown and with active senses? "Not 
always ; although in your stage of development, your 
bodies are full grown, your spiritual senses are not al- 
ways active, for the thoughts and desires of the mate- 
rial life often clog them." 



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In this case do they sometimes remain near this 
earth? "Yes; many linger of their own accord very 
near their highest loves, which are the desires of the 
flesh ; the purer the earth lif e, the shorter the time one 
stays in that state; the interest, and even curiosity 
you have about things disconnected with your material 
life, helps you in reaching a purely spiritual state. 
The differences and varieties apparent to your earthly 
senses seem endless, but they are as nothing compared 
with those you will find the instant you lay aside the 
masks of your material bodies." 

Shall we be cognisant of all planes in that world? 
"You can only see in our worlds, what you are a part 
of." 

Are we not a part of the All? "You will be in the 
great final, but now these parts are only potential, you 
can only see what you have known and experienced." 

What is the meaning of the symbol of the two 
thieves? "There is a spiritual meaning in all that his- 
tory, and I cannot make intelligible to you, what it 
means to me. This only illustrates what I have just 
said, that I cannot give you what I possess ; you must 
get it for yourself. 

Can you tell us whether our race once occupied some 
other earth and fe£L to this through sin? "Your 
planet was not the first occupied nor did you fall to 
this, the fall had been before." 

Is ours the most material of all the planets? "Each 
planet represents the spiritual condition of the race at 
the time of its occupancy. Some day your earth will 
be so spiritualised by the men who dwell upon it that 
it will be literally a new earth." 



278 INSIGHT 

Is this not the age of the spirit? "The age of the 
spirit began before the race came to your earth. It 
seems of slow growth but it is not, and the progress 
it is making is in accordance with the highest possibil- 
ities in the present condition of humanity." 

Are we not at the beginning of a new cycle? "I do 
not see that you are, except that to you individually 
it may be so, for a cycle is new to each man as the 
knowledge of it reaches his consciousness." 

Can you tell us where "Insight" is? "He is in the 
spiritual world of a planet that is being prepared for 
our race." 

Is there anything to prevent our coming into com- 
munion with him? "If you were spiritual enough there 
would be no space, for that is a material limitation." 

How does "Insight" appear to you? "Like his old 
self, but in my ordinary condition, I cannot see him, 
for although it is not a difference of kind, the degree 
of his spirituality, is so much greater than mine, that 
I have to bring myself into an unusual state to perceive 
him." 

By what process do you bring yourself into this 
state? "By a process of absorption of the Christ life, 
I go out in thought, in works and in deeds to all my 
Father's children. I love them with more ardor; I serve 
them with more devotion, and I strive to do this, with 
no thought of self, and then 'Insight' comes to me, 
when I am most busy and expecting him least. He 
stands at the door which was once his own, and which 
I now call mine, through his generous giving, and I 
take his hand and look into his face, and although it 
may be but for a moment, all I have longed to know, 



INSIGHT 279 

comes to me in that silent greeting. You come to me in 
the same way, and I am sure you feel the better for the 
coming." 

Is Succor with you, and can we see her? "Yes, she 
is with us always now, she is here to do your bidding." 

Can you tell us of father and Aspiration? "I know 
all is well with them, but I am no longer needed by them, 
for they are learning to walk alone, and even a mother 
cannot help them in that. I was a much longer time in 
the spiritual world than was necessary for my own 
unclothing, and I have so much to learn here, that I 
must now devote all my energies to my new duties." 

Could you tell us what you are learning? "I am 
learning first that my earthly loves are only a part of 
what my nature is capable of, though I clung to them 
for many, many years as you count time." 

Was it wrong to do so? "No, not wrong, no love is 
wrong, but even love may be self." 

It seems to me, there is as much separation between 
friends in the spiritual worlds, as there is here? 
"There is no real separation, we are always with our 
own, wherever we are, only on your plane, is the soul 
condemned to associate with those not of its kind; for 
the mask of flesh hides the real man and you are con- 
tinually being disappointed." 

Will you not tell me something about my friend 
Mrs. S.? "Succor says she does not know, but your 
thought has been felt by her mother heart and she per- 
ceives the spiritual state of your friend. She too is 
destined to be a succor to many, and her angel is beau- 
tiful and radiant." 

Can you not tell us something about her babies who 



280 INSIGHT 

have died? "Her babies I am sure are safe and happy; 
many Succors wait for and tend such souls, and pre- 
pare them for their new life." 

Will their mother see them, just as they left her? 
"She will see what she desires, and although they may not 
be infants, as she held them in her arms, they will 
come as little children and make her heart glad, by 
their recognition of her, as the mother they had known 
on earth." 

Why are children taken out of this life before they 
have begun to live? "They rush sometimes into the 
material world before they are ready, and return to 
learn how to wait till they are fitted for the place they 
are to fill." 

Have the parents not something to do with attract- 
ing the child's soul? "Yes, the forces on both planes, 
work together. Those who do not live to fulfil their 
life work in the body prove that the forces are ex- 
hausted, that brought them to earth." 

Then we ought never to try to prevent children from 
dying? "That is not true; do your part always; often 
your force is the necessary addition; all things work 
together, and what you can do is as much a part of 
God's plan, as that of the highest in the highest heav- 
ens." 

Do you think it would be better for us to seek knowl- 
edge by inward contemplation rather than by this 
means? "Yes, for the aim of all outer manifestations, 
is to materialise spiritual things. What I am giving 
you is nothing until you appropriate it, and make it a 
matter of your own experience, to know the truth, you 
must live it." 



INSIGHT 2S1 

Would it be possible for us to see "Tranquility" in 
such a way that we should be sure it was not our im- 
aginations? "It is not necessary you should see me to 
learn all that you need to know ; the power of seeing is 
the new sense that humanity is evolving, and it will 
come to you, when your growth is ready to receive it." 

How can we cultivate this sense? "Do not cultivate 
it, cultivate a pure life, the love of doing good, of all 
that is true and high, all that the best of your race have 
experienced, and one day you will find yourself with the 
new sense, without Jknowing whence it came." 

Is not the best way, to surrender our will to God's 
will? "Yes; and do not spend too much time in think- 
ing even of that, follow the path that Jesus trod and 
you shall be able to say, 'I am one with the Father.' 
He went about doing good, go ye and do likewise, heal 
if you can. He has given you the form, clothe the 
naked, feed the hungry, and love, love, love the brother." 

What is the law that sends the infant back to wait? 
"There are forces that may be called forces of equi- 
librium, that govern these changes ; nothing can remain 
long out of its place in God's universe. Do you not see 
men on your plane rushing into places, for which they 
are unfitted; it is the same everywhere, for the nature 
of man, is always governed by the same laws. These 
half developed souls long for material things, and 
that longing reacts with the greatest force upon your 
planet, and together they carry the unready soul into 
its fleshly house, sometimes the soul discovers its error, 
before it is really born into the visible world, sometimes 
not till a few months of actual earth life and sometimes 
these months grow into years." 



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Can you see any other order of beings than human 
souls? "There is no other order of beings, for all have 
been human souls, that is, there are none in any of the 
worlds devoted to our race. We are taught that the 
highest beings in the universe, were once human, like 
ourselves and made their choice, through knowledge 
and experience and temptation." 

How about the Elohim? "They are beyond my 
knowledge, but I think what you mean must be the 
Father we worship as our source and our Creator. I 
do not know if we are thinking of the same idea, we are 
told here, as we were with you, that the Word was the 
Creator." 

But who created? "The great unthinkable Being be- 
fore whom our finite faculties must bow in silent devo- 
tion, and with no hope at present of understanding. 
His Word was his agent, God spoke and it was." 

Do you still speculate upon these great truths? 
"We do sometimes, but our great effort here, is to bring 
ourselves into accord with the highest we can under- 
stand, not to trouble ourselves with what is so far be- 
yond us." 

Does Isabel not remember her former communication 
with "Insight" and desire to be with him? "She is per- 
fectly content now to learn the lesson of her state and 
place. You think a sight of our heaven would be a help 
to you, not more so than for a man to gaze on a palace, 
with the hope that his action would make him a king." 

Did you not tell us that simple inquiry was helpful? 
t<! Up to the point of understanding, seeing is not always 
believing; the real work is to live your present life. 
Each soul constructs its own heaven, and you cannot 



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occupy that of your brother, till you are exactly in his 
spiritual condition. You are not ready yet for the 
spiritual world. Your only world is the one you are 
now in ; do your work there. You must not subsist on 
truths others give you, you must live your own truths, 
and when you do that you will really begin to live. This 
has been an unusual experience. Succor and others 
helped you to it, but you must not think too much of it ; 
live and work and grow in your present life, and the 
impulse will spread and do great good." 

You were not content to remain in the spiritual world 
instead of going to "Insight", were you? "I could not 
have remained in the spiritual world, the time had come 
for me to be born out of it, but my life there, well lived, 
fitted me for this." 

Without these instructions, we should not be where 
we are today? "That is true, and since you have had 
such unusual advantages, let your lives and by that I 
mean, your thoughts and most secret desires, accord 
with the teaching you have received from 'Insight.' 
Think high if you can, but thinking about a thing is 
not being it, and a man must be, if he is ever to reach 
the highest." 

Did our race ever inhabit the moon ? "Never ; it was 
once full of life, but not of a perfected human race ; as 
the moon is a satellite of the earth, so were the creat- 
ures produced by her, they bore the same relation to 
humanity and are what surrounds the spiritual world 
of that planet, and exercise some influence on human 
beings, they are elementary beings, what their destiny 
is to be, I have not learned." 

What influence has the polestar on us? "I do not 



284 INSIGHT 

know its physical influence but I know that its spiritual 
influence is very great, and the great spirit that lies 
behind it, and gives it life, is a very advanced one, and 
is a guide to many other spirits who turn to it for help." 
Now we shall have to leave you! "I am sorry I can 
give you so little of what you wish to know, but what 
I have of love and contentment and helpfulness I give 
you with all my heart — take of my gifts, and God be 
with you." 

COMMUNICATION XXXIX. 

(Tranquility) "I have communicated with 'Insight' 

and he wishes Solicitude to perfectly understand that 
the power he is so desirous to obtain cannot lead him to 
high spirituality, and is not necessarily the result of 
any attainment in that direction. He says that this 
power is coming to your race, but it must come through 
the general improvement of all mankind and the gener- 
ation to which Solicitude belongs, is to have the princi- 
pal work to do to bring it about ; the effort must be to 
ameliorate the condition, and improve the morality, not 
cultivate any powers in yourself. I have already com- 
municated this message to Endurance, but she was not 
able to carry it into her material world. Solicitude will 
possess the power of which 'Insight' speaks, if he lives 
the life and you all will help him, each from your place. 
Your states may change, before he attains to this de- 
velopment, I mean states when I say place. I do not 
mean any immediate time, but he may take many of 
your years, and you may be in position to give him 
great assistance." 



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Is the power of going out of the body consciously, 
any proof of growth? "It is a proof of attainment 
made in that particular direction, but often that at- 
tainment was made in a previous existence. It is in 
your power to know much without putting yourself in 
this position, which is not desirable, for you are leav- 
ing your own place, and where you now are is your 
proper place." 

Was man created a dual being and is that the mean- 
ing of "Male and female created he them" ? "God had 
in his idea of man, the difference that you understand 
by sex ; the story of creation that you have been taught 
is true, that there is one especial man in this stage of 
development in God's creation, for each especial wom- 
an, and the union always takes place eventually but not 
always on your plane. It is a great assistance to have 
this union of the two, even though your true mate is 
unknown to you, for it is the law that God has chosen 
to underlie and govern His universe." 

Did the frequent reference which Jesus made to the 
bridegroom refer to this? "It did in its highest sense, 
but in the words of this perfected being is to be found 
every shade of meaning of which thought is capable, 
and something to suit all mankind in every stage of 
spiritual development; when he spoke to those with 
whom he lived on earth, he was speaking to an audience 
who could only think of marriage in its lowest sense, 
and to them there is no such thing possible as the ideas 
he had in his mind of this perfected union, when two 
souls really become one." 

Is it well for one to marry in view of this fact that 
his true mate may be waiting for him ? "It is ; for you 



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cultivate your affections in the right direction, and you 
must begin always with the day of small things." 

What did Jesus mean when he said, "I am the res- 
urrection and the life"? "He meant a new life above 
a conquered body ; the universe is given to man but be- 
fore he can possess it he must hold in subjection the 
little particles that compose his body." 

What is the explanation of those texts in the Bible 
which imply that the soul may be irretrievably lost? 
"That was a misunderstanding; there can be none 
eternally lost, where could they lose themselves? If I go 
down into hell, Oh God, thou art there. To the under- 
standing of those who heard these things the length of 
time it would require for some souls to reach a con- 
sciousness of their oneness with God was an eternity." 

How can perfected souls or even you in your heaven 
be happy when you know of the misery that exists? 
"We know all unhappiness is a struggling toward the 
light and that in this travail only can souls be born into 
the true life." 

Can not one have done with suffering when one comes 
into the knowledge that there is nothing but good and 
that God is all? "Not always, for at present those 
who see this truth must bear their share of pain for the 
brother." 

Is this the vicarious atonement? "There is no 
vicarious atonement." 

Does a soul that has reached the highest heaven 
ever come back to reincarnate? "In some instances, 
for sometimes the spirit chooses a lower place, and 
none of our race is yet through with our objective life ; 
no man can yet live forever through all eternity in his 



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heaven however pure he may be, for the race will some- 
time develop to his plane and he will find himself caught 
into its life, and living again with man in some material 
world." 

If I ask "Insight" to help me to prepare these writ- 
ings for publication will he do so? "Yes; 'Insight' is 
always ready and anxious to help you." 

How does my appeal reach him? "Through the 
channel of which he told you ; every time you experience 
the force and value of a new truth it is through 'In- 
sight,' I mean our 'Insight.' There is something in the 
name that might mislead you; he is your especial 
helper." 

How does "Insight" have time to attend to our ap- 
peals for help when he is engaged in other, and such 
vast undertakings? "He has the time, because belong- 
ing as he does to our society, it is given him to come to 
us, here, when we need him; and through us to reach 
you." 

Are there many present listening to these teachings ? 
"Yes, a great crowd this morning." 

Why do you say morning. It is late at night with 
us ? "It is morning with us when we are at work in the 
Father's vineyard; when we seek repose we retire, and 
putting ourselves into a more interior state, are con- 
scious of a quiet and repose, that to us means, what 
your night does to you." 

Has that expression of the vineyard some mystical 
meaning? "It has, because the grape has within itself, 
more than any other part of the vegetable world, the 
good and the evil, that is usually not developed until 
matter reaches a higher plane." 



288 INSIGHT 

Can you tell us something of the spirit behind our 
sun ? "Yes ; I know of him as the creator of our physi- 
cal universe, our planetary system is the work of his 
hands, but it consists of more worlds than you know 
of, or than your eyes can see." 

We have been told there are other suns than ours? 
"Yes; they each have a perfected race behind them, 
and as our system came into being, so all others have 
had their beginning, each under and carrying out the 
will of the Great One whom no tongue can praise and no 
understanding comprehend." 

Were not the Elohim the creators of our race? "Not 
our spiritual creators ; God the great and only One 
does not give spiritual creation into the hands of any 
of His creatures, that He keeps for Himself." 

Do the planets influence our individual lives ? "They 
should not influence our real selves, for the planets have 
no spirit behind them, they get all their light and power 
from the spiritual Sun. They are like your earth, 
creations of the Sun, they have no perfected spirit 
either on them or behind them." 

From what do you get your light ? "We have a great 
spiritual sun, that illumines us as your sun does your 
earth; if you will read what 'Insight' gave you, you 
will have a clear idea of this subject. You may specu- 
late about these things as much as you will, but the 
important thing is to live the life, and love the brother, 
and overcome evil in your own selves. This is the best 
wish I can make for you and God keep you until we 
meet again." 



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COMMUNICATION XL. 

Present: Endurance, Discernment, Acceptance. 

You want to speak with Experience ; it is well, what 
are your desires? 

Who is Experience? "One of the household, to 
which we all belong, the household of 'Insight.' " 

How does it happen that Experience comes to us 
today instead of Tranquility? "Your mood suggests 
it, Tranquility belongs to another state of feeling. I 
am the best guide for you now, but Tranquility bids 
you welcome and says she is always here, but you have 
allowed the imaginary troubles of your life to come 
between her and you." 

Do you know of the teachings we have received from 
"Insight"? "Yes; I have always been present with 
many others from the first." 

Do you suppose that "Insight" still thinks of us? 
"Without doubt, those who have once come within his 
influence are never forgotten or neglected by him." 

Is this the only world in which there is suffering? 
"No ; it is one of a series ; I will tell you what you 
must not reveal, except to those of the Understanding. 
Your world is for the present one of what you call the 
Hells," 

Why should we not tell this? "Because, do you not 
see how hopeless it would make life for most of your 
fellow sufferers ? It is not fitting that the many should 
come into such knowledge now." 

I supposed hell was wherever we chose to make it? 
"It is, but what you call hell, is made so because so 



290 INSIGHT 

many of those who have rebelled against their higher 
selves are congregating together, in your world, just 
now." 

Is the spiritual world of our world one of the hells? 
"Yes, and no ; it may be heaven, if you so desire. With 
regard to speaking of this to others, do you not see 
that most persons are spending their time in the pur- 
suit of happiness, and if they were convinced, in their 
present state of spiritual development, they would curse 
God and die, and have it all to do over and over again." 

Convinced of what ? "Of the fact that your present 
existence is not intended to be one of happiness but of 
growth." 

Then ought we not to be happy here? "As happy 
as you can, but it is not possible for the material things 
for which man craves, to make happiness for an immor- 
tal soul, which can only find true happiness in God. 
Those who have outgrown the material, and are seeking 
spiritual things, are happy in proportion to their stage 
of growth." 

Why has man lost his consciousness of God in this 
world? "Man has not lost his consciousness in your 
world but in a world where, if he had chosen there would 
have been nothing but God and good." 

It has been said that this is the only world in which 
God is ever denied? "God is never really denied, for 
that which denies Him is not the part of man that ac- 
cepts Him. Do you not see all around you, evidence 
that your world is not adapted to your better part, but 
only to your animal existence?" 

Is it not in this world that we are to develop our 
higher part? "Yes; that cannot be done by what you 



INSIGHT 291 

call advancement, or the discoveries of science; as soon 
as your knowledge reaches a certain point, it will all 
disappear in a great calamity, and the race will begin 
over and over again, not necessarily the same individuals 
but the race." 

This sounds very discouraging? "And this is the 
reason you must hold the knowledge sacred ; if you have 
not seen it before, you three who are here together, it 
is because you were not ready for 'Experience' ; now it 
has come to you it will clear up many things in your 
universe, if you will reflect on what I have told you." 

It is very important you should now tell us how to 
act after recognizing this truth? "You already know 
this, 'Insight' has told you again and again, live the life 
of the Perfect Man until you can say as he did, 'I and 
my Father are one.' " 

Are we not all one with the Father ? "Yes ; in the 
sense I perceive you have in your mind when you utter 
those beautiful words, but until each man wakes to the 
conscious knowledge of it, and is governed and directed 
by it, he is not yet wholly one." 

Why does not a person who longs for this knowledge, 
come into the consciousness of it? "No one can long 
for God, without being conscious of Him, but the mate- 
rial things of life may still hold such, so as to obscure 
the perfect vision." 

Will the prefect vision come as soon as the body is 
put off? "Yes; very often, if the longing has been 
stronger than the desire for material things." 

Should we not make the best we can out of our 
material life ? "Yes ; but the best is not in the accumu- 
lation of the dross of which your world is composed, 



292 INSIGHT 

the best is to be found on an entirely different plane, 
that of the affections and intellect, I do not mean the 
knowledge of what has been done on earth by man, and 
which you call history, but knowledge of God and His 
works." 

Is it wrong for us to cherish personal attachments 
and do such keep us back from higher growth? "That 
is not possible, in your present life you must love the 
person, for you must love first the seen, before you can 
love the unseen." 

But ought we not to love them in an impersonal way? 
"If you could do that, you would not be confined to time 
and space as you are." 

Then we should not struggle against the love for 
special persons? "Not at all, but you should strive to 
love the persons, even of those who are distasteful to 
you ; it is quite possible by this means to change a hell 
into a heaven. This is an answer to a thought I see in 
the mind of the one who is bringing me into this com- 
munion with you, that your present life is a hopeless 
one." 

Do you mean Endurance? That is the name "In- 
sight" gave her. "You mean that through him, you 
came to recognize it. Insight could not give you a 
name, any more than he could give you a state ; at the 
time Insight came to you, or rather that you arrived at 
him, that especial name represented your state." 

What are our names now? "I cannot say, for I see 
what you will all ultimately be; you will be as we are 
here, full of knowledge and power." 

Do you always live in Insight's home? "No; I am 
a visitor as you are." 



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Where do you then belong? "Can I tell you? Write 
it if you can, I will lend you all the help possible, for 

me from the foot of the eternal I 

fear you are not ready to grasp my true meaning." 

Are you as high as Insight and Tranquility ? "Yes ; 
if in a circle there can be high or low." 

Do we belong to that circle? "Yes; for there is but 
one thing in all the universe, that is God's thought, 
and I called it a circle to make you understand that it 
is without beginning and without end; words are poor 
things to convey spiritual thought, but something end- 
less is the idea I want you to realize. You have grown 
to me since I first knew of you, and that is the reason 
I have not communicated with you before." 

Then we have grown ? "Yes ; without doubt, for 
though I am your brother, not greater, only some thing 
more individual, you have never been able heretofore 
to see me." 

Is there any surer way of attaining what we are 
striving for than the union of our will with God? 
"That, and that alone is the only way from the begin- 
ning, to the highest reach the created can attain, when 
God's will is done on earth, it becomes heaven." 

Then that is the only thing necessary? "Yes; that 
is all; and that is the reason even our state, here is not 
at its highest and best." 

Until all are perfect must we not each share the 
misery of those who are not so? "Yes ; and that feeling 
will grow more and more, as you attain to higher 
knowledge, but by a strange paradox when you want 
least to be happy, you will find yourself more than 
happy." 



294 INSIGHT 

I do not want to be happy while others are miserable ! 
"Does not that prove to you what I first said, that you 
are not to seek to be happy, but only to grow." 

Is it not necessary to have evil in order to grow? 
"No ; there is no evil necessary, but as some immortals 
have willed to have evil, a good God could only give them 
this chance to get out of it." 

Who were these immortals? "The race who now 
occupy your earth and the worlds connected with it." 

Will any of our race be ultimately lost? "Lost; 
where could they be lost, in our Father's universe?" 

How often have you been on this earth? "Many 
times, but I cannot go into my former lives with you, but 
whatever you have suffered or may suffer however, has 
been endured by me." 

Will you ever return to this earth? "I do not wish 
to, and I am not obliged to return unless I should do 
so for some special purpose." 

Were you consciously born into the Christ life while 
you were on this earth? "Yes; that birth must take 
place in the womb of matter." 

Having taken place, does one have to return here to 
attain perfection? "There is no 'have to.' You do as 
you desire, those who do not crave material things do 
not return to them, man is always free." 

And yet we must return until the spiritual birth 
takes place? "Yes; but this birth is only a return to 
the consciousness of the God within; we use the figure 
of speech, but it is not really the beginning of some 
new thing." 

Now we are called away and must leave you, shall 



INSIGHT 295 

we be sure to find you again? "Yes, come when you will, 
and if you really come for instruction you will find me." 

COMMUNICATION XLI. 

Easter Sunday. 
Present: Endurance and Discernment. 

"Spirit hath conquered matter, and humanity has 
risen from its grave, there is joy at the thought in all 
the worlds inhabited by our race." 

Then you also recognise this anniversary? "It is 
given to us every day to feel this great truth but with 
you today is devoted specially to it, and so you come 
nearer to us, this is Experience who speaks, did you not 
desire me?" 

Did this idea come to humanity the first time, after 
the ascension of Jesus? "Not for the first time, but 
for the first time that humanity was able to seize and 
appropriate the idea. Even now however to most of 
the Lord's followers, the belief is only in a material 
rising." 

Was this not known to the ancients in the old wis- 
dom religions ? "Yes ; to the few, but since our era, it 
has been manifested to the many." 

Is there not danger of humanity worshipping Jesus, 
instead of the Christ principle which he manifested? 
"The danger lies on the material plane, but it will right 
itself. First that which is natural, afterwards that 
which is spiritual." 

Was Jesus a man who had become divine through 



296 INSIGHT 

growth ? "Yes ; the most perfect our race has yet 
evolved, and the pattern on which the perfection of 
the race is grounded. When like him we can say, 
'My Father and I are one,' the battle has been fought, 
and the perfected spirit returns to God who gave it." 

We have been requested to ask you the following 
questions : 

(No. 1) Is not the soul devoid of personality when 
if first comes to earth ? "Yes ; the soul has nothing you 
would understand by that term, until it comes into the 
consciousness of its material personality in which it is 
to do its life work." 

(No. 2) Does it not create its own personality? 
"Yes ; by taking to itself in the sea of changing mat- 
ter, those particles best adapted to its purpose, I say 
its purpose, not always God's purpose. The soul's 
personality is something quite apart from the person- 
ality of the body, which you must always consider a 
garment ever changing. The soul grows towards God, 
and therefore has its changes, but I doubt if I make 
myself understood." 

(No. 3) Does not the personality always potential 
in God become actual for the first time, during the first 
incarnation? "During the first incarnation as human, 
not till God breathes into matter or body a breath of 
His own divinity does the soul become of God, and there- 
fore indestructible. You have the thought always of 
life in the body, cannot you see there is but one con- 
tinuous life, and the changes from one incarnation to 
another, are as if you travelled into a far country and 
came back different, and wiser than when you started, 
but still the same, with your own identity unchanged." 



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(No. 4s) Having become actual, (the personality) 
can it ever be laid aside as we lay aside the body at 
death? "The spiritual body gives shape to the material 
body, as the hand to a glove ; nothing without the divine 
spark could have your form, and when you drop your 
garment of clay at what you call death, you who ani- 
mated it, live as before, only in your own atmosphere, 
instead of the atmosphere made necessary by your 
physical needs. There is not change in the real man, 
instead of changing your garment by appropriating 
new matter you drop it altogether, and you yourself 
live freer, because you are in a more congenial air." 

(No. 5) What becomes of the personality, when 
the soul returns the second time, or again and again? 
"Your personality comes with you as you carry your- 
self about wherever you go in your earth life. It is 
not a change in you, only a change in your environ- 
ment." 

(No. 6) Why did Swedenborg, who lived in daily 
association for thirty years with the inhabitants of 
the spiritual worlds, never speak of -Reincarnation? 
"He did not always distinguish between the spirits he 
saw on your earth, and the spirits he called angels, and 
whom he supposed only made the changes and advances 
on a spiritual plane, for what he saw was never physi- 
cal bodies but spiritual forms, and he appears to have 
been limited in his vision, although he was a great seer 
and beheld more than any man of his generation." 

Was that the beginning of the opening that made com- 
munication between the two worlds possible? "Many 
have gone quite beyond him. When knowledge is once 
reached by man, it is because all men are getting ready 



298 INSIGHT 

for it, and what was peculiar and wonderful for him 
of whom you speak, in his day is # given to many in 
yours." 

Why do both "Insight" and you seem to hold back 
from telling us a thing until we find it out, and urge you 
to speak of it? "Neither he nor I can tell you any- 
thing; you must arrive at it yourself, and when you 
were ready for it, although it may have seemed to come 
to you in some instances from him you called 'In- 
sight' it really came from the insight within you." 

Yes ; but we were convinced of the truth of Reincar- 
nation, long before we asked "Insight" about it ? "You 
could not have been thoroughly convinced, if you needed 
his knowledge to supplement yours. Your great teacher 
then was 'Insight' now your teaching must come from 
your own experience, and I bear the name of your de- 
velopment." 

Perhaps you are "Insight" and you now call your- 
self Experience? "I am not the same; insight with 
you has grown to be experience, but 'Insight' your 
teacher, is a real individual, a high and mighty worker 
with our Father, as you have become since you were 
worthy to bear his name. When you were with him, 
it was because your insight was being developed there- 
fore you might all be called Insight. What you 
learned, seemed to come from without, but you and he 
were floating in the same sea of love, and appropriat- 
ing from it the same spiritual particles which go to 
make up your spiritual being, and it seemed to come 
from him, because you were so conscious of his pres- 
ence." 

I have been so unhappy because I have let human 



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cares come between me and my love of truth? "Do you 
expect to come to your resurrection day without the 
cross and the pain, and the darkness? Not so, you 
must tread the same path as the Master and remember 
in the life of the perfect man, it was after the trans- 
figuration that the scene in the garden came. Your 
thought as I see it, is, that after having attained peace 
you should not lose it, but you must lose it if you are 
willing to give your life for any one, and if your dark- 
ness is not a selfish one, and your despondency does not 
come from having your own peace disturbed it may be 
the means of growth most needed by you. Personality 
must always be a great deal to you, if you wish to tread 
in the right path ; for by personality only, on your plane 
can you help those who come to you, or whom God has 
given you, for your souls may be far apart; but by 
descending into personality you reach them. The idea 
which you have in mind, is a false one, for shutting 
yourself away from the outer world is a most selfish 
thing, it is not yourself only you must save, but the 
weakest of your brothers who come into your life, or 
ask you for help. The reason the followers of those 
earlier religions achieved so little is because each man 
was working for himself alone. Jesus worked always 
with and for his fellows, and we must do the same. He 
prayed you remember not that those he loved should 
be taken out of the world but that they should be kept 
from the evil in it." 

We want to ask you something about marriage? 
"I see you wish to know what will be the final outcome 
of the relation now existing between the sexes. In the 
end, there will be a perfect conjunction of the two ele- 



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ments which on your plane are called male and female, 
but which on the spiritual plane are represented by wis- 
dom and love ; now they are dis j oined, and wisdom which 
man thinks he represents, is made greater than love, 
whereas the latter should always come first, for it is 
only through love, the feminine element, that wisdom, 
the male element, can be attained." 

Is there any wrong in the impulse which makes the 
man and woman care for each other? "It depends on 
the attraction which draws them together, if it is wholly 
on the sensuous plane it is wrong; in heaven as it is 
on earth, the only pure union, must come from an at- 
traction higher than the senses. A man says he loves, 
what does he love? You or your body, it all depends 
on that." 

Do you think a wife should ever separate from her 
husband? "Has not the Master answered that ques- 
tion? He said, Moses granted a divorcement, but in the 
beginning it was not so. If you are mismated, try to 
get good out of the evil. Who are you, that you should 
demand the happiness of a perfect union, when it has 
not even come, to many in much higher spheres." 

Was Swedenborg mistaken, when he said he saw 
marriages take place in the spiritual world? "No, he 
was not ; till the very end, when the perfect union takes 
place, between the soul and God, this vision, or symbol 
of it is found. Some of our race are still on a purely 
material plane, to their own consciousness, because they 
have voluntarily drowned themselves in matter, and 
marriage between them is little higher than the beast, 
but to more spiritualized humanity, it is given even in 
your world of restitution to know sometimes, the sweets 



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of a union which though imperfect as yet, still fore- 
shadows the bliss of the final union with the Father." 

Is what Lawrence Oliphant called the sympneumatic 
descent, possible here? "All things are possible every- 
where, for never forget, heaven and hell are not places, 
but states ; place, like many other terms we use, is only 
an attempt to realize eternity." 

Could you not tell me something of my past? "You 
mean the past lives you have lived. I can look with 
you. Can you not see yourself, a woman of the tribe of 
Judah the same from which Jesus came." 

Did I live at the time Jesus was on this earth ? "No ; 
it was long before. Your life was passed mostly in the 
great city now in ruins to which you went a prisoner, 
with those of your kindred and household, and you lived 
a life of hardship, and lowliness, but of goodness and 
helpfulness, according to your understanding, and when 
you sought your present life, you remember you asked 
that your days might be passed in assured quiet with 
those whom you might love." 

What city do you mean? "Babylon." 

What was my name then? "Your name was Patience, 
I mean your spiritual name, for I only see clearly what 
your spirit was, and the environment comes to me like 

a cloud, but I will listen — • They call you 

Mother, Sister, Ruth." 

Will you tell Endurance of her past Incarnation? 
"She lived before you and in a very different life also, 
in a great Egyptian city, where she was one of the 
rulers of her time, and with power, sometimes for good, 
and sometimes for evil, and she also has her desire in 



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her present life, that she might be kept from the temp- 
tation of great power." 

What influence have the stars over our destiny? 
"None, except that they are part of God's universe, 
which is linked together like a chain, but the worlds to 
which you refer are too far away from your present 
life to influence it. Nothing can really affect your des- 
tiny, but your own will. Man has ever wished to shift 
the responsibility of himself to the outer universe, but 
it is because he does not choose to work out his own sal- 
vation from within." 

The stars seem to have some influence over us? 
"They really have none. God would not permit such 
injustice; the position of the stars is governed by an 
eternal law, and if so think you, your destiny has not 
its own law, when you are of more value than many 
worlds." 

Have the great convulsions of nature anything to 
do with man's thought of the conflict between truth 
and error? "Yes; everything, whatever occurs on your 
earth is a shadow of that which is real on the spiritual 
plane, and in all the worlds, where evil predominates 
as it does with you, nature reflects the evil, as a face is 
reflected in a mirror." 

What is the meaning of the cyclones we have been 
having? "Wind is the symbol of spirit, and evil spirits 
are reflected in its workings. Evil intelligence is more 
powerful than ignorance, always remember this." 

May not this science of mind which is just beginning 
to be perceived, be misapplied and do great harm? 
"Without doubt, but man will bring himself through 
all this slough of his own wilful suffering, into final 



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union with the divine will and the reason the innocent 
suffer with and for the the guilty is because humanity 
is one body." 

Will this world ever be destroyed by a great cata- 
clysm? "When man attains to its possession, it will go 
through a cycle of change, for until the very end it is to 
be used as the theatre on which our race is to work out 
its redemption, and many changes will be necessary. 
When man can no longer draw nourishment from it, the 
present land will become submerged, and where the sea 
now is, will arise the continents for the future race, 
and this process has been repeated many times. In 
regard to the destructive agencies, which you call those 
of nature you must remember, not only the evil of your 
present race, is at work to cause them, but evil in all the 
spheres that surround your earth, for there are deeper 
depths than any to be found even with you. Wherever 
man's will is antagonized to God's will is hell; and the 
depth of that hell is always equal to the intelligence 
that thinks and wills the evil." 

It seems as if it were hopeless for one person to strive 
against all this evil? "Do not say so, as a little help- 
less child can lead and govern a whole household, so 
one little act of love, one going out and laying down 
of self can make a summer's day, when a cyclone might 
otherwise have raged. You have in yourself the power 
latent now, but which will grow by the using, to make 
your earth a heaven where no storm or suffering will 
ever come." 

Now we are called away, but we wish to thank you 
for all you have given us. "I give you nothing, we see 
and remember together, and you must not thank me." 



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COMMUNICATION XLIL 

Present : Endurance and Discernment. 

Shall we drink together of that boundless ocean of 
knowledge, contained in the universal mind. This is 
"Experience" who speaks, and we will continue our 
remembrances together, they are your experiences or 
we could not see them as we do. 

Could you tell me of my life which preceded the one 
of which you told me the other day? "You have already 
been given the key, cannot you unlock the closed doors 
yourself?" 

No, I cannot and surely it is not usual for one to be 
able to do so. "Not usual, but it might be for those who 
have come through Insight to recollection." 

Do we often meet those in this world, with whom we 
have been before? "As often as is necessary, for each 
of such associations has some great end in view, and 
until that is accomplished the impulse goes on." 

When Endurance and I are separated, is there any 
way by which I can reach you? "I think the conscious- 
ness of our correspondence should reach your outer 
senses. I shall do my part to make it possible but per- 
haps your real work lies now in your outer and present 
existence and if so, it will not be given you." 

Will you ever know about me then? "When our ex- 
periences are upon the same plane." 

Are you not a little ambiguous ? "Not at all ; I wish 
to be perfectly clear. When you think of the great 
Father, or of His works, as you often do, from a plane 



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on which I can reach you, your thoughts are my 
thoughts, and I am perfectly conscious that it is you, 
spiritually and intellectually who speaks to me, but now 
they come to me through the mind of Endurance and it 
requires all your powers to make this formulation of 
my thoughts reach you as they do in written words." 

Are there many present today, listening to these 
teachings ? "Yes ; there is the usual throng of spirits, 
who come into the influence of Tranquility, and who 
when they have gained that height, take from the many 
who are waiting to give of their riches. All do not 
wish what I have to give, but there are those standing 
ready and eager to satisfy all wants ; as in a great 
symphony there are many voices, and even perhaps 
some discords, so here there are many souls, some filled 
only with love, others with knowledge, but all with the 
tranquility that comes of willing service, and it is very 
beautiful to be one of them." 

I thought Love always had to precede knowledge or 
wisdom ? "Yes ; but the knowledge to which I refer is 
that which you call knowledge, and which, if possessed 
in a tranquil and willing spirit, acknowledging the great 
Ruler of the universe, brings its possessor into our 
courts." 

What do you think of this method of healing called 
Christian Science? "The method is true, but on your 
plane there is to your perception, in place of God's 
will, man's will, and before your method can be effect- 
ually used, man's must be brought into union with the 
Divine will, more than you now find on your earth." 

But should we not try to heal? "Without doubt, 
seek for the right conditions, they exist in many souls, 
and when you find them, you can bring health and hap- 



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piness to every portion of the organism you would help ; 
never be discouraged, for if you fail a thousand times, 
what is that to one success?" 

Then I can never do harm by trying? "You cannot 
do harm so long as you keep yourself in God's thought, 
and empty of self, are filled with Divine life and force." 

There is really nothing but God, is there? "That is 
the only thing worthy the meaning your generation 
attaches to that word, which has come to be so potent 
among you ; call it what you will, it is not the word, but 
the meaning the word expresses ; which is of conse- 
quence, 'the letter killeth, the spirit maketh alive.' " 

Christ said he would give this power of healing to his 
followers, ought they not to be able to use it? "It is 
theirs, and not till they use it, are they taking their 
own. The dying legacy the man Jesus left to those who 
like him would attain to the Christ life." 

Do distance and space as we know them interpose an 
obstacle to healing? "They should not, for the method 
is spiritual and distance and space are terms belong- 
ing entirely to the material plane." 

When healing fails to take place by this method 
what is the cause? "The instrument is out of tune." 

The healer, or the patient? "Both are instruments." 

Has one a right to expect to see results? "Yes; 
every right." 

Is pain real? "Very real, on your plane, as much so 
as the plane itself, but not real in any true way." 

If it is not real in any true way what is the use in 
admitting it at all? "Do you not see that it is no more 
possible for the many to go suddenly on to that high 
plane, than it is for a bud to become suddenly a rose, 



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full of fragrance and beauty? — How have you reached 
where you are, by a sudden spring? Has it not been a 
growth, even in your present life? With regard to the 
question of healing which I see in your mind, never re- 
fuse any who ask you for help. If you can serve the 
one you think of there is no distance between you. Do 
not go out of your way for your work, the poor are 
always with you, and by the poor is meant, all who 
need anything you have, not only physical needs but all 
those that makfe part of your daily life, and who be- 
long to you, for there are no accidents on God's ocean 
in which we live, as ships sail on the deep waters of your 
earth. We do not sail on that ocean without a divine 
compass to guide us ; and if we come together, it is not 
by chance but by appointment." 

What is matter? "It is the outer and lowest mani- 
festation of man's will, in contradistinction to God's 
will." 

According to that God did not create this material 
universe? "He created it as He first gave His breath 
to man, which contained the potentiality of the exist- 
ing universe." 

Will it not sometime vanish away like the baseless 
fabric of a dream? "Yes ; for then man will not need 
it. Now, in turning from his real centre and his true 
home, he must have this thing we call matter but in the 
beginning he did not need it, nor will he in the end, 
when he returns to the God of whom he is a part. As 
you construct scenes in your present consciousness 
which do not exist in material form, so finally man will 
permanently construct his eternal home in the bosom 
of the Father." 



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Is it correct to say, "a part of God" ? "God cannot 
be limited by saying, He contains your universe ; that is 
such an infinitesimal part of His mightiness that it 
is as nothing in His sight ; these expressions are only 
used to explain Him. He has not sight, but how shall 
I express it, my mind cannot grasp Him, nothing in the 
way of words can give us the least idea of Him ; we can 
only reach Him by going down into our innermost being, 
and in silence waiting to hear Him speak to our highest 
and best selves." 

How can we go down into our innermost being? 
"By prayer, by shutting out the turmoil of our daily 
cares, and by first living the active life of Christ, loving 
and serving the brother. Do this, and in some supreme 
moment a glimpse will be given you of a joy too deep 
for expression, and which you can never communicate." 

How can we pray, and yet be still from our own de- 
sires, for praying is wishing? "That will come with 
continued effort, wishing is willing, and the first step 
is to bring our own will into harmony with the Divine 
will, so wishing, must always exist with us until the 
very end; we, here in our state, wish and will, contin- 
ually and we could not grow without it for we are still 
far from the perfect." 

What is Inspiration? "The consciousness of God's 
will which is given to those who, by long lives of wishing 
and willing, have arrived at the point of seeing some 
of the Divine laws that govern the universe." 

Do you see the angel of Seeker? "Yes, she is very 
near us." 

Is he growing? "In some ways, he must in his present 
life descend more than in former ones, into the material 



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things of your world, for it is needful he should try 
all things in order to make an intelligent choice." 

Can you tell me of his last incarnation? "I cannot 
see, but I know in his former life he must have lived 
shut out from the cares and temptations of carnal 
things for there is a look in the face of his angel which 
she could only wear from deep meditation on divine 
things. One life seems of such importance to us, and 
so it is, but always remember it is but a chapter in the 
book of what really deserves the name of life." 

Can you see the angel of Solicitude ? "Yes ; she 
smiles as your angel takes her hand, and he is growing, 
and although he has much to conquer, all will be well 
with him, for he brought with him here I can see, many 
tendencies which are hard masters but with them came 
the strong will, and it has been turned in the right 
direction." 

Can you not tell me of his past life? "All I can tell 
is what is written on the face of his angel; I see there 
many battles, some lost, some won ; and a look as though 
the conflict were not yet over; but also a look which 
means a determination to win the highest and best, and 
therefore I can say all is well." 

This is our last interview before we all separate, will 
you not speak some parting word to us ? "It is the sea 
of love in which we all are that brings us together, we 
shall not be separated, let us each do our utmost to dis- 
cover the Divine will, and live in accordance with it, 
and when that is accomplished, separation and farewells 
will disappear, and we shall all be one as Christ and 
the Father are one." 



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COMMUNICATION XLIII. 

Present: Endurance and Discernment. 

We bid you welcome. I, Tranquility, hold you by the 
hand. Have you not felt I was with you? 

Endurance thinks she saw you lately, were you con- 
scious of her presence at the same time? "Yes, with- 
out doubt, we were very near each other, and I remem- 
ber you left me suddenly when the consciousness reached 
your outer senses of my spiritual presence, and this 
happened because your material self interfered." 

Is it something in her growth that makes it possible 
for Endurance to see you? "Yes ; she has attained that 
power, or rather she has become conscious of it." 

Is this power latent or potential in all? "Yes; all 
have it, or there could be no life, but to many there is 
no evidence of life but the outer and visible, life is 
spirit." 

Is not consciousness spirit? "Consciousness has 
many degrees, but the consciousness of which I speak 
is spiritual. All have spiritual consciousness, for the 
material and external which seems so real to you is only 
the shadow." 

Does "Insight" ever come to you in your home? "In 
times of preparation I go to him." 

How? As we go to you? "Yes; except that no 
material thing can come between us, if I am worthy." 

Are you not always worthy? "Yes; in reality, as 
you are, both of you, but not yet ready to live in it, as 
a king's son is not ready in his childhood to wear the 
purple and wield the sceptre." 



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It has seemed to me that I have been losing ground 
spiritually since I first knew you. "Yes ; we can have 
night as well as day, but that is not going back; it is 
going forward to a new day ; perhaps you go back into 
last night's darkness to take some belated one by the 
hand ; if so, be willing to bear their darkness." 

But suppose one is blinded by it? "If so, make the 
effort to come into the day, but do not come without the 
other." 

Do you ever know these descents into darkness? 
"Yes. Shall I tell you, and will you understand? I go 
back many days and nights to welcome the beloved ones 
who hold out their hands to me as you do, but I can 
keep my lamp burning and the secret of doing so 
will come to you, dear sister, when you have done this 
thing for what to you would seem centuries ; but your 
darkness is not great. I see your light, quite plainly, 
and you do not because you turn your eyes away." 

Why do I turn my eyes away when I do not want to? 
"The cares of your world are your present duties and 
they always seem to obscure the sun of righteousness, 
but fear not, it is only a seeming, for in your sky He is 
fixed now and forever. Do not think care and anxiety 
which are but other names for love, are darkness, ac- 
cept them as your appointed way, and all will be bright 
and well with you." 

Is it desirable to try to prolong life in the body? 
"If the soul longs to remain, it is best it should." 

If this is optional why is suicide wrong? "Every 
impulse of the soul is not necessarily right; some souls 
know nothing but their own selfishness, but right or 
wrong, an eternal law requires that each soul that longs 



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for material existence shall have it sooner or later, and 
it is well to remain where you are until the things of 
your earthly life become of less value than the things 
beyond." 

Is grandmother here today? "Yes; she is waiting 
for her children." 

Will you tell us about father and Aspiration? "Yes ; 
all is well with them. They are in their own places, 
and that is the best that can be said of any of us, for 
once let us find the appointed place and willingly walk 
and work therein and God works with us and we with 
Him." 

Will it be possible for me to have a few words with 
father? "Yes; it is possible; I will see if it is well. 
He is here and sees your angel, and knows that you 
have asked for him. Speak and he will answer." 

Father! do you know that I have been trying to do 
all you would wish since you left us? "I see, my daugh- 
ter, your spiritual state, and I know that no selfish 
following of your own will would have brought you 
where you are. You have done better than I knew how 
to teach you, and I too have learned of your teachers 
since I came here, and am able to recognize their work 
and their knowledge. Keep in the way they have shown 
you and follow what you are taught and when you 
come hither you will have less to unlearn than I have 
had." 

Are you not happy to be with your children? "Yes ; 
for I see what the end will be with them and with me. 
I have learned, what I did not learn in my earth life, to 
give my will to the Divine will and since then all has 
been clear and bright as it will be with all souls who 



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attain to that knowledge which seems so difficult, but 
which makes everything easy and unlocks the doors of 
all that is worth our pursuit." 

But father! you always did the very best you knew? 
"But my highest was not high enough, for I wished 
everything to come into my way instead of God's way, 
and if I made fewer mistakes than some others, it is 
because I had begun farther on than they." 

Why did W and Isabel stay here so much 

shorter time than we? "The Eternal Father, we are 
taught by our angels, is always so loving, that if He 
sees one of His little ones not able to bear the heat 
and burden of the day, He gives him rest even though 
the night is far distant." 

Have you a different idea of God, now, than when you 
were here? "I think my idea of Him was in the right 
direction for I was never one who feared more than he 
served, but now I love Him, which I did not learn to do 
there." 

Do you think of God as a personality ? "Yes ; for 
I am not developed enough to think of Him as an ab- 
straction, I think of Him as something more personal 
to me, I have a feeling of nearness to Him as you had 
towards me although also He is as one of whom I cannot 
think clearly. Here we have a realization of our own 
limitations and are able to see that the obscurity of our 
conceptions is always owing to ourselves." 

Are you and Isabel together? "We are together 
much but each soul lives to itself and in more or less 
intimate relation to God, and in our best moments we 
lose ourselves in Him and lose also those who are outside 
of us. Isabel has her work as I have mine, and it is 



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when we put ourselves into certain conditions, that we 
resume our old relations of father and child." 

Does this satisfy you? "Perfectly; it is as it should 
be, even in our old life we were separated by a thousand 
interests and we do not change entirely by coming 
here. — Each soul is a void till God fills it ; I, Experience 
speak. I speak for your father, he wished me to ex- 
plain why he is not always with those he loved best on 
earth. Some questions must always be referred to 
Experience, and that is one of them and what I have 
said is a key to all your longings and all your aspira- 
tions. You try to fill this empty place with each other's 
love, but God's love is the only thing that can satisfy." 

I wish to ask father whether he hears me sometimes 
when I ask him to help me? "No; I cannot hear you, 
but you are helped and guided, by wiser ones than I, 
and call on me, or on any whom you love, for the chain 
vibrates when a sincere soul calls for help, and help is 
sure to come." 

You seem so separated from me, there are not many . 
things I can talk to you of? "We were never so united 
for each is seeking God and that guides our footsteps 
along the same path, do not feel that I am far away, 
for I am very near you, and I am sure if I am ever weary 
and sad as I am sometimes, that I am only responding 
to some suffering somewhere in my Father's universe. 
I have often been permitted to see you all as spirit sees 
spirit and I feel that all whom I loved are being led by 
the same influences. The great procession moves on, 
and we shall, all of our generation, meet, spirit to spirit, 
and then our great happiness will begin." 

Then those of the same generation will be together? 



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"Unless for our instruction we come into relations with 
those older and further advanced, it is our spiritual 
way of learning history, to see those who have been 
longer here than ourselves." 

Have you seen any of the great and good men who are 
spoken of in the Bible? "I have seen one or two of 
those men, who have come to our place to give us their 
knowledge." 

Have you seen Jesus Christ? "No; I am not yet 
worthy to see the perfected men of our race. I shall 
before long, for I am working with many others for 
that privilege; before I reach him, I am taught, that 
there are others who must teach me, and make me fit 
for his instructions." 

Has Experience seen Christ? "Experience has seen 
the best that our race has attained, and he will tell you 
what you can receive, but until you live his life more 
completely, you will not understand though he spoke 
with the tongue of angels. The hardest thing for me 
to learn here, was to understand my own limitations, 
like you I wished to know all things at once, but that is 
not possible, for though all things are ours, we must go 
in alone and possess them, they cannot come to us 
through another. Not Christ himself can give more 
than we are ready to receive." 

Did Jesus attain perfection through many lives, and 
the same tribulations we have? "How could he have 
done otherwise? Would a father give to one child a bet- 
ter beginning than to another? It is not possible. All 
that a father can do, is to give life and freedom, and 
put all his possessions into the hand of his child. He 
cannot force his children to take and use, and under- 



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stand them, for then they would cease to be children 
and become slaves." 

Do you now believe in reincarnation and many lives? 
"I believe there is but one eternal life, its manifesta- 
tions are but an accident and accessory of its growth, 
and I should not say many lives, but one continuous 
life under many forms, and in many surroundings." 

It has been such a happiness to me to have this in- 
terview with you? "And it has been a happiness to me, 
when I saw you here before, you were not under the 
guidance of the higher powers, like Tranquility and 
Experience, and though I wanted to hold you and tell 
you many things, I would not do you such an injury. 
I think, or Experience says to me, your leading motive 
then, was to come into Isabel's consciousness, and have 
her come into yours, and she was not strong enough 
nor were you, to avoid those who are always on the 
watch to entrap curious souls who come within their 
influence." 

I want to ask Experience if he remembers the inter- 
view we had when Endeavor was with us ? "Yes ; per- 
fectly, and Endeavor has been with us, much more 
since then than before." 

Does she have the same name, and is she worthy of it ? 
"Yes ; her name is the same, and whether she is worthy 
of it is a secret between herself and the spirit of truth 
and knowledge. What am I, that I should judge my 
brother? Do not fear for that soul, she is on the road 
to be more than Endeavor." 

Can you see her angel? "Yes ; he comes to us, and all 
is well with her, you and he, both love and cherish, you 
are a great power for good in her life, and he and your 



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higher self, are holding each other by the hand and 
smiling in each other's face." 

Will you send her a message? "I ask her angel, and 
he says, keep the heart pure, and the purpose right, 
and do not fear, with those twin guardians, any out- 
side foe." 

COMMUNICATION XLIV. 

Present: Endurance and Discernment. 

Go slowly ! I am your best friend. 

Who are you? "Duty. Have we gone hand in hand 
so long without your knowing me? I see you desire 
Experience. You are with him." 

Have you known what we have been passing through 
since we were last with you? "Sometimes when your 
desires were aspirations. You have both done well. 
Duty is the sure road to the very best. You often hold 
converse with me on my plane, which does not always 
reach your outer or lower consciousness." 

Alas ; I know it does not. "But it does in acts." 

Should suffering be accepted, or should we resist it 
as being contrary to Divine will ? "Resist it ! and like 
all evil it will fly from you." 

Does not resistance make a barrier which prevents 
the spirit of God from passing through us? "It de- 
pends on your spiritual state. Resistance should be 
from your higher self. I do not speak of your mortal 
will." 

How do we know when we have sufficiently sur- 
rendered our own will to venture to speak the word of 



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healing? "You will know, for with that readiness will 
come the power." 

If pain be contrary to the Divine will, why do we 
have it after we have surrendered the will to God? 
"Because as pain in any part of your organism affects 
the whole, so you bear your brothers' ills." 

Was this the only reason Jesus suffered? "Yes; he 
in a special way bore the sufferings of others, and the 
more Christ-like you become the more you too will bear 
those ills." 

(Question lost). "Not if we are sure of our own re- 
lations, with the great source. If you could rise to 
your rightful level, you would be one with the Father, 
and have a constant consciousness of that union. Your 
rightful place is one with God. That is, your will can 
be merged in His will." 

But is it not all important that the word should be 
spoken by us ? "Yes ; all things are known through 
the word, and since Jesus lived on your earth, the word 
has been made flesh." 

Should we always venture to speak the word of heal- 
ing? "Always, always; and with a brave and stead- 
fast spirit." 

Do you think we ought to try to overcome personal 
attachments, and detach ourselves from persons, places, 
and things ? "Not as you now are. As I see you both 
your best chance for this union, lies on the plane of your 
brother and your work is with humanity, in your present 
place and state. Do not long so much, Discernment, 
for results. Be willing to suffer, and to wait." 

But, if I stop longing, shall I not drop back into 
error? "No; you will never drop back, and if you will 



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make a perfect surrender of this longing you will ac- 
complish more easily what you desire. I am advising 
no easy thing, but you must be willing." 

(Mental question.) "It is not, because your motives 
are still too mixed with your earth life. You expect 
spiritual results to appear on the physical plane. You 
have obtained in a great measure what you desire, and 
you must wait till it has time to appear in your outer 
life." 

When having believed ourselves detached from per- 
sonal affection, we find ourselves again entangled in 
its meshes is it better to give way to the impulse which 
draws us into new and close relations? "Judge every 
impulse by the Christ life, and give way to none, that 
will not stand that test." 

We cannot always tell because Jesus did not have 
just such suffering? "Yes; he suffered as you do. 
He did so because his organization was so pure that he 
felt every sin of the wicked era in which he lived, not 
from within outwardly, but from the reverse." 

Was David a previous incarnation of Christ? "The 
Christ life that was in David, was, as far as it went, 
the same, but the spirit that was incarnate in Jesus, 
was not that of David ; such spirits do not come often 
to your earth, and when they do, it is to manifest as far 
as can be received, the possibilities that await all souls." 

Do you ever see Jesus Christ ? "Yes ; in a way so 
spiritual, that I cannot communicate it to you." 

Do we ever see him? "He is like your physical sun 
to your outer vision, always in the spiritual heaven and 
you may have been worthy of a glimpse of his glory, 
but if you have, you need ask the question of no man. 



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not even an arch-angel. On your present plane there 
will be intermediate help always, between you and him, 
just as your sun's rays unless diffused through many 
mediums, would scorch and burn, so a look at him unless 
you are fitted for it, might injure instead of blessing." 

Should we pray to Jesus Christ ? "Yes ; pray to the 
Christ, drop from your mind as. much as possible, the 
thought of the Jesus. You are thinking of the man, 
the human Divine side is The Christ, and that side is 
still for us, our highest possible knowledge of God." 

This is all such a mystery? "Hid with Christ, but 
it is ours." 

Are any of the apostles now living again on this 
earth? "No; I think not, I am not sure." 

Why do you not know? "I have my limitations, and 
am not in a condition to know the past history of many 
whom I help, and the apostles were men of like tempta- 
tions with ourselves ; and not further advanced than 
many in your sphere. The reason I think they are not 
now on your earth, is that the}? - deserve a longer rest 
than your two thousand years of time would give them." 

Are these next ten years of our century to be criti- 
cal ones in the world's history? "Yes ; because so many 
have now an open door at which they stand and catch 
glimpses of the life beyond." 

Will there be a great cataclysm which will change the 
face of the earth, or will the change be on a higher 
plane than the material? "The change will be on a 
higher plane ; it is now taking place." 

What will be the effect of the way women seem to be 
outgrowing men? "That is the change; the feminine 
in creation, is being recognized, it belongs neither to the 



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physical force, nor to intellectual activity, but to emo- 
tional force, which is to be the great lever that is to 
overthrow the existing order of things." 

What do you mean by emotional force? "I use that 
term to express to you the affectional power. In other 
words the power of love, not sexual love, nor maternal 
love, but the love thrt goes outside of all selfish con- 
siderations, and loves humanity as a whole, and each 
member as one's own wife, or child, or cherished friend." 

What is true marriage? "The union of two spirits, 
that in the fall into matter became separated." 

Is anybody now living capable of it? "Yes." 

(Question lost). "Necessarily for the moment 
the soul loves all other souls, a bond is formed, that 
alters all hitherto possible relations of life." 

Does the work "Insight" is doing in the spiritual 
world of another planet affect the world directly ? "No ; 
only in the way of feeling the growing spiritual world, 
where he is at work. As you would feel the influence 
on your earth, if a new physical body were to appear in 
your heavens. You know that what you call the laws of 
gravitation are the result of a perfect equipoise of 
matter. Any new body would derange that equipoise, 
so here we feel an added glory to our already glorious 
life." 

Can I send a message to "Insight?" "Not through 
me, but you can through your own insight, which, if 
you will discriminate, you will see is quite a different 
thino- from 'experience.' Experience comes from with- 
out, insight, begins from within." 

I always think of you and "Insight" as being very 
different? "And you do well, we are two different per- 



322 INSIGHT 

sonalities, and in our relation to you we have only a 
spiritual one, and hence the use of these names as qual- 
ities." 

Is Tranquility here ? "Not now ; we have not gone 
to her. I like to meet you on the plane where duty leads 
you and you wished 'Experience,' did you not? I best 
can serve your purpose while you are perplexed with 
questionings and doubts." 

Are there other guardian angels present? "Yes; 
not the many whom you have met at the door of Tran- 
quility, but Courage is here." 

Why has Courage had to undergo this trial? "She 
was called on by something in her nature to touch life 
at that point, for it would not be well that she who has 
always given should pass from the present chapter in 
her life without knowing the blessing of receiving." 

Will you send her a message? "Tell her to let go 
the hand of Duty, which she has always held, and let 
herself drift into the arms of Tranquility who has a 
place for her, even where she now is. All is well with 
that great soul, and even I uncover my head before 
her." 

Will you not take us to Tranquility? "I am waiting 
for you, and she whom you would question is here by 
my side." 

Are we with you, Tranquility ? "Yes ; at my door, 
with your hand in mine and Succor is with me." 

Will Succor tell us something about father and Isa- 
bel? "Everything is as I wish. I see less of them now 
for they no longer need me and if they did I should go 
on the wings of love to their side." 

That seems curious that you do not see them? "No; 



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not curious. Succor must be about her work, and here 
in my own home I find plenty who need me, and I still 
go to the spiritual world to receive those who sometimes 
come naked and alone into the spiritual life." 

Do you know Lawrence Oliphant, and can you tell 
me anything about him and his wife? "Tranquility 
knows, and says they are working in the lowest spirit- 
ual world, the one nearest your own. This from their 
own choice, for they still influence and direct the work 
they began on your plane." 

Is it well for them to do this ? "Yes ; it is well, for it 
is perfectly unselfish, and they are fitted for it, and to 
do this work they forego the pleasures of their own 
home in our heaven." 

Would it be possible for me to be put into communi- 
cation with them? "Experience will take you to them, 
'Fruition' speaks to you. What is it you would know?" 

Is Fruition the name of Lawrence Oliphant? "Yes; 
that is our name." 

I am so much interested in the work you and Alice 
did? "I see you are, and you must help us." 

How can I help you? "By living the life. Try 
more and more, let nothing come between your soul and 
this desire. If you will let a poor unworthy brother 
say a word to you both, it is this, you must tread the 
wine press alone. None can come into this life, without 
first laying down his outer and visible life ; it is the only 
wav. Conquering our selfhood, not separating our- 
selves, from the place in life where our duties lie, for 
you can see that Duty's hand has brought you this 
communication from Experience, Tranquility, Succor, 
and lastly ourselves." 



324 INSIGHT 

Are you now writing through Mrs. Templeton? "We 
are inspiring the writer with our ideas." 

Do you think well of Mrs. Templeton's teaching, 
that we should detach ourselves from persons, places 
and things ? "Yes ; but you must not misunderstand 
their meaning. It only means that those things which 
are paramount in your lives, and occupy most of your 
time, must be made secondary to your higher knowledge 
and convictions, but not even for a vision of the Christ, 
should you let go the hand of the smallest of your 
brothers." 

How do you now regard the sacrifices you made here 
on earth, for the sake of your growth? "I sacrificed 
nothing. Never until I began to live for all humanity, 
was I in any way content ; everything that looks like 
sacrifice in my life was my highest happiness." 

Then you do not regret having separated yourself 
from Alice? "Never; we were more together, than we 
could have been in the closest physical intercourse and 
we were happy in going into the lives of others, and 
thus making ourselves worthy to be their helpers." 

We are told you are remaining near this earth to 
carry on your work? "Yes ; we are so glad that we are 
permitted to keep ourselves near you, for those we 
left behind still need us ; you know it all, for I see that 
your teacher is my own, 'Insight.' I am sure he has 
given you the key by which you can unlock all the treas- 
ures of our Father's universe." 

Can you remember all the events of your earth life? 
"Only as they belong to our present work; we put all 
other details to one side, this is a power we began to 
develop before we left our former life, and here it is 



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very easy to concentrate all our forces on what we wish 
to accomplish." 

I too have been trying to help along the new era, but 
I am sometimes discouraged. "All rivers run to the 
sea, and though you still give your thoughts and time 
to many seemingly small things, if the motive is pure, 
all things will help swell the sea of righteousness, which 
we are all wishing should rise and wash forever from 
our race its errors and ignorances." 

What do you think of Mrs. Templeton's assertion 
that the sympneumatic influx can be communicated 
from one to another? "I think well of it. Try for it! 
for it is the permitted foretaste of heavenly joys." 

What does it mean? "It means the union, first, with 
the other half and that is a symbol of the greater union 
of the Christ-made soul with God. It will only come to 
you by seeking God through the Christ life. 

Will you not tell us something to do, to bring on the 
new day? "There is but one way for humanity, by ap- 
prehending the meaning of the Christ life. I think I 
see, with you both, your present place is with Duty's 
hand in yours, to do well your work in your appointed 
place. It is not given to all to seek new ways. If a 
new way is intended, you hear the voice calling to it, 
very plainly, and if you are to have this joy of which 
you spoke it will come to you, if you only do your daily 
tasks, in the spirit of the Master. In seeking this you 
must not do it at the expense of any other duty, for it 
will never come if it is sought as a selfish experience." 

How can we always know exactly what our duty is? 
"Listen to the voice. If we are living the life, it will 
not deceive us, and do not depend on any outside aid, 



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even this from the worlds more spiritual than your outer 
one, heaven is within you, and you waste time in seek- 
ing aid from any other spirit in God's universe than the 
one He has put in your own keeping." 

Have not all, even great souls sought help from those 
more advanced? "Yes; but you are both now able to 
walk alone and you must realize that everything you 
have learned from these worlds, was already contained 
in the words of the Christ-man when he Lived on earth." 

We should not have been where we are today, if it 
had not been for these teachings? "Therefore they 
were permitted." 

Is the sympneumatic influx a physical sensation? 
"No; it is purely spiritual, and the reason it descends 
at all into our outer consciousness is that the new era 
that is dawning has made it necessary that some souls 
and bodies should receive this baptism. It is the 
descent of the Holy Spirit which came upon the dis- 
ciples of Jesus, when they were gathered together and 
needed a sign of his presence. When we are brought 
so immediately under the influence of his spirit it is 
necessary we should revert to our dual state for that 
was our first estate ; when God looked upon His work, 
and said 'It is Good,' we come you see into a conscious- 
ness of God's thought of us which being unchangeable, 
never sees us but as we proceeded from His hand, the 
man-woman who was part of Himself, each individual 
possessing the creative power." 

Do you think Mrs. Templeton a wise guide to this 
thought ? "Yes ; she has great power, and makes of 
herself only a channel for what she receives ; write to 



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her, she will help you, if the conditions make it pos- 
sible." i!;.;j 

Will you not help Endeavor and me? "I do not see 
that I can help you, for it is not wisdom but love you 
need, and that must come from the source and fountain 
of all love. The stream which you will find deep down 
in your spiritual natures ; seek it there, and there are 
no joys that may not be yours. I have already said to 
you, live the life. Let men say of you as they said of 
those of old. 'He hath been with Jesus.' " 

Is Experience still here? "Yes; I wait your pleas- 
ure." 

We wish to thank you and tell you how much your 
teachings have been to us. "They will be, if your life 
is in accordance with what has been given you. I could 
tell you of my own early efforts ; like you I was impa- 
tient for the highest good, but it is by a little every 
day conquering some inward weakness, that you will 
attain. Take your faults one at a time, you will never 
be satisfied, for your ideal will constantly grow higher, 
but you too will grow and that is your present work. 
Endurance thinks she has heard all that before. There 
is no new thing in God's eternal verities, and I only 
speak to you as one little child might speak to another, 
who has lost his way in the dark and is holding out 
his hand to some unseen friend, whose glimmer of light 
he sees in the distance." 

Now good-bye, will you not take us to Tranquility 
and leave us there? "Go yourselves! She and Succor 
always await you and you are not conscious how they 
help and comfort you." 



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COMMUNICATION XLV. 

Present: Endurance and Discernment. 

"Tranquility welcomes you, sisters, what shall she do 
for you?" 

Why have we been unable to reach you in our recent 
writings? "You have been with me very often. I do 
not know of your writings, but perhaps there were 
others with whom you lingered, and it is always better 
to hold the brother's hand even though he may seem 
to keep you back." 

Can we not help the brother better by going our- 
selves into the higher state? "Always stay in the higher 
state with regard to your real self, but never fail to 
go into the brother's state, if by so doing you can help 
him. There are certain conditions necessary before 
you can come to us here, and it may be they were not 
present when you tried to reach us before." 

Have you seen Courage since she left us, and went 
into the spiritual world? "Yes; and I will tell you of 
her; before she left your plane, I was with her, at her 
own desire and she wishes you to know, there is no 
shadow to death, even when it comes as slowly as it did 
to her, because even then, it all depends on the inner con- 
sciousness, and that if right can throw a glory and a 
light on every pain. She is still in the secret chamber, 
and for her the shame of the unclothing is past, and 
she now rests in peace, unmolested by all the lower at- 
tributes which belong to mortal mind and body." 

Has she seen you face to face and recognized you? 



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"Yes ; I was with her until the angel of the resurrection 
took my place." 

Is it not unusual for one to pass so quickly through 
the process of unclothing? "It is not unusual, if the 
development is sufficient and there are many who wish 
to perfectly obey. All are instructed, that this is the 
true way for them, but all do not listen to the teachers 
who are provided for every new-born spirit." 

Is this process of unclothing a terrifying one that 
some shrink from it ? "No ; for all is beautiful at first, 
and there is nothing to appal." 

What do you mean when you use the expression, 
"shame of the unclothing" ? "When the soul is stripped 
of all its self-righteousness, and sees that God is 'All 
in all' at first there is great shame, at its own mistakes, 
and the greater the consciousness, the greater shame; 
but there is every stage of development and growth, 
coming momentarily into the spirit-world, and it is a 
glorious enlightenment to every soul, but can you not 
understand that the clearer the vision of the Infinite, 
the less one thinks of himself." 

How is it about those who are too undeveloped to 
have any vision? "These feel no shame, it is only when 
we perceive our own nakedness that we are ashamed." 

I hope after these teachings, we shall be willing to go 
at once into the secret chamber? "Yes; you will, here 
as well as there, cling to courage as well as aspiration, 
for with them you two will always make the necessary 
conditions, to reach spiritual truth of a high nature. 
I mean Discernment and Endurance should develop 
courage and aspiration." 

Will Courage help our circle, as she always promised 



330 INSIGHT 

she would? "Yes ; but she must now have new duties, at 
least if she chooses to go on to her highest possibili- 
ties." 

Then you think she will not try to help us? "I do 
not mean that, the greater includes the less, but you 
would not have her looking earthward, would you?" 

Did you not advise us to go back, if we could help 
another ? "Yes ; but you had first to develop on your 
own plane, in order to have the wisdom to help, and the 
same law prevails in all the universe. Love first, which 
gives the desire to help, and then comes wisdom which 
gives the power." 

Is Endeavor present, and can you see her? "Yes, she 
is present." 

Will you tell us how her angel looks ? "I see content 
in her face but there is not perfect peace which there 
might be." 

She thinks she is never happy, why is this? "She 
could be if her life were purely spiritual, for her spiritual 
state is advanced enough to bring her happiness, but 
perhaps she is seeking material happiness." 

No; but she is seeking physical health which she 
should be able to find surely? "Yes ; she should; if she 
keeps herself so occupied with others, as to lose all 
thought of self, her physical health, will respond at 
once to her spiritual growth." 

Can you not tell her what she should do in order to 
attain harmony of mind and body ? "I cannot, her angel 
turns his face when I question him, as they always do, 
when one would enter into the holy of holies of another 
soul, but I can only tell her, she can come to me who 



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can give her peace, if she will lay down self, and not 
even ask, or seek for peace, or joy, but only do, do, do, 
that is the true secret of all joy, the doing for others, 
with all thought of self obliterated." 

How can there be joy or peace when the body is sick? 
some of it unto death? "You must bear the pain of it 
whether you will or no, so bear it with courage, and all 
will be well with the bearer, inasmuch as when one pain 
or want is alleviated the whole body will be better." 

When all our race is whole and perfect, will it look 
like a glorified human being? "It will be the body of 
the Christ spirit, and will become a creator and a per- 
fected race." 

Will you tell us whether the sacrament of the Lord's 
supper was meant to be obligatory? "Nothing is 
obligatory which is for our own pleasure. The supper 
is to each soul, what that soul makes it. If in the eat- 
ing, you feel that you are really becoming part of the 
body of Christ, eat ; but if in the doing you feel that 
his body is becoming part of you, act as you need and 
as your experience teaches ; every soul is a law to itself, 
that is, after the soul has been born again, but you 
should never cause a weaker brother to misunderstand 
you, always do for his sake what will help him, never 
think of yourself, that is the true way." 

Is Succor always with you? "Yes; she is with me 
when not doing her work, she comes to me when she 
comes home. She will answer." 

Where is Aspiration? "She is in the lower heaven, 
and is very happy. I see her when I go to my children, 
and she is so interested in the coming of Courage, and 
is to see her among the first. There is a new light they 



332 INSIGHT 

tell me, breaking on your earth, and I want you my 
children to be in it, and spread its influence, work while 
you can and hand on your work to your children, and 
their children, for it will increase every year, more and 
more as you record time." 

What do you mean when you speak of a new light? 
"The idea of God, and the idea of man, is different from 
any I knew and I am allowed to know that you have per- 
ceived the truth of the new idea." 

Does it come to us by influx from your world? 
"Where else could it originate except on a spiritual 
plane for it comes from God, who is Spirit." 

Did you know all these truths, as soon as you found 
yourself in the spiritual world? "No, my child, I have 
learned them as my spiritual insight was opened by my 
own teacher." 

Do you ever hear anything about "Insight?" "Tran- 
quility will tell you that he sends us messages from his 
plane, and that none whom he has taught are forgotten 
or neglected by him, that he is working for us all alike. 
You, and we, are equally near to him, and the work 
grows as he and his peers work out the Father's will 
concerning it." 

Is he conscious of my thought, when I send it to him? 
"If it is sent on the right plane, he cannot respond now 
to material wants, as his work at present is entirely in 
a higher order, but reach that plane, and you are with 
him, as you are now with me." 

Are you always able to reach him? "Not always, for 
my work lies on a lower plane, that is, I call it lower, 
there is really no such distinction, all is great in our 
Father's eyes, and I only use the word to distinguish, 



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for your understanding, one soul is of more value than 
many worlds, for are not worlds made for them?" 

When you speak of our Father, do you think of Him 
as a principle of life, or as a personified spirit having 
some kind of form? "Both, all you can conceive of 
principle, truth, love, personality, individuality, would 
still be insufficient to express my thought of Him. I 
like best to think of Him as our Father, for that means 
something to both you and me, and where we cannot con- 
vey our ideas fully and properly, we must do so as 
nearly as we can." 

Shall we ever see God in any other way than as He 
is manifested in Humanity? "He is life, and we can 
have no independent existence apart from Him, but we 
can always be conscious of our own individuality, though 
we are at the same time conscious of being one with 
Him." 

Shall we ever see God, face to face? "In the great 
end, we are taught that we shall, but that is many eter- 
nities yet, for those of our race. Millions, and many 
millions of races, like ourselves, will go to make up that 
great end, and the thought of created beings cannot 
take in yet the idea of what that end will be, for when 
that end comes, we will be conscious of the Infinite." 

Then we shall not be merged in God? "Shall we not 
recognize Him as the Creator? Now we only know Him, 
by His Garment, but in the end God shall be 'all in all' 
for when we see Him, all thought of ourselves will flee 
away and we shall only be conscious of the Creator, 
but we shall never cease to be consciously ourselves. It 
will only be in moments of ecstatic vision that we can 
forget and cease to see ourselves, as part of a perfected 



334 INSIGHT 

race, but those moments will come, for that is the end 
and object of all creation." 

Now we must leave you? "Come to me when you will, 
I always wait to receive you and welcome you." 

COMMUNICATION XLVI. 

Present: Endurance, Discernment, Devotion. 

"I hear your call, ask and I will give you all that is 
mine. This is Tranquility." 

Can you tell us anything about Courage? "The 
message comes, that she is receiving her first instruc- 
tion in the Spiritual world to which she has come from 
the secret chamber. I feel her happiness which has in 
it the real peace that only love and knowledge of the 
divine will, can give; and therefore I know that all is 
well with her." 

Can you not put us into direct communication with 
her? "My messenger says he can ; ask what you desire." 

I want to know whether Courage has forgotten our 
long talks together upon these subjects? "She says 
she forgets nothing, but that all things seem different 
now, for she sees them as the angels see them, and 
knows, if we only understand, all things work together 
for our good." 

Are things very different from the idea you had 
formed of them ? "Yes ; for I thought many things of 
importance which had no real life, and many things 
that I overlooked I have learned were the real things." 

Such as what for instance? "The real things are, 
love and sympathy, which I find I did not always value, 



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335 



and then too, I find my adherence to fixed opinions was 
not the true way to advance, for we must in your world 
and in all worlds, I am taught, hold ourselves pliable 
to receive the divine, which can alone teach us what is 
true and real." 

Is there any better way to progress than following 
the divine will, as you and I used to discuss so much? 
"The divine will comes to us on your plane in natural 
ways, often through our brother, whose ignorance we 
despise, for truth is many sided and embraces all 
things in Heaven and on earth and we can find it every- 
where. That was my principal mistake, I looked for it 
only among the wise, but it is oftener with the foolish, 
or those whom we call foolish." 

M are you conscious of our actual presence 

with you? "Through Experience, he is always the 
medium, even among you, for what you know, and are 
able to hold and communicate, is either your experience, 
or that of some brother, there is no other knowledge 
possible, you will perceive this when you think about 
it." 

Have you seen Christ ? "Yes ; for Christ is the Res- 
urrection, and without a conscious realization of him 
I could not have felt my birth into spirit and out of 
matter, when I opened my eyes I seemed to see and feel 
him in every fibre of my being, though afterwards, when 
in the act of unclothing, I lost sight of him, but now he 
is my light, my life, my heat." 

Was your sight of him a spiritual perception? "Yes ; 
for here there is nothing but spirit, and our faculties 
are only formed to perceive spirit." 

Then was not Christ an external, visible manifesta- 



336 INSIGHT 

tion? "Yes; when I first came, he appeared, as I al- 
ways thought of him, as my elder brother." 

Will you have any power to help our circle as you 
always said you would try to do? "I shall have, and 
when I become stronger, and need less help myself Ex- 
perience tells me I shall do what I will, for it is given 
to us here, to help all below us in God's kingdom; we 
in return get help from those that are above, for there 
is an unbroken chain in our Father's hands, by which 
His divine love flows into all creation." 

Have you seen father, mother and Isabel? "Yes; 
all of them, and many that I did not know belonged to 
me. That is the most beautiful thing of all, that no 
word of love, no act of kindness is ever lost, but we 
find them all here in angelic forms ready to welcome and 
love us. Your mother is with Isabel in her house, they 
live together and are happy, in their way each a mutual 
help." 

Where is father ? "He is doing his own work ; do you 
not know that in his earth life, he did his work apart 
from those of his own household?" 

It seems strange to think of such close ties being 
severed? "No ties are ever severed but they cannot 
need each other, for here a need always brings a prompt 
response." 

Does the tie between you and them still hold? 
"Stronger than ever, for what food is to your material 
bodies, love is to our spiritual bodies, and we love each 
other so well, that we do not ask for contact but each is 
willing, anxious indeed that each should be doing his 
highest and his best." 

You already seem so far removed from us in your 



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new experiences? "Not as far as I was on earth, when 
the same roof covered us ; for now I see more, and under- 
stand how near we are to each other." 

Does Isabel look as she used? "She looks in her best 
moments like the angelic infant we remember her, there 
are states here that change our appearance, and I have 
seen her in many of those, for I am near her in the spirit 
world, she stays on the plane of your brother and 
mother, though she might go higher." 

How can we best help every one we love? "Through 
your life, for it is by your living that you draw suffi- 
cient of the Divine power to sustain yourself and have 
something to give to others, you also are a most im- 
portant link in the chain ; the first born who receives it 
most directly from the Father, is not more important. 
I mean every one of you who is conscious of the Divine 
life." 

Have you asked about "Insight" since you entered 
your present state? "Yes; but he is still in another 
order of spirtual worlds, and I have been told that all 
knowledge which he has, to give, must flow to me 
through intermediate channels." 

You have seen "Tranquility" face to face, have you 
not? "Yes; she came to me, and when I can reach her 
I have the peace and rest I so longed for before I left 
the body." 

Does she live with you? "No; she had helped pre- 
pare my house, but she lives in her own home oh a higher 
plane." 

Was death a painful process to you? "No; I have 
no recollection of death." 



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What was your first impression on coming to con- 
sciousness? "Of the presence of the Christ." 

How did you get this impression? "By every sense, 
and in a way I could not make you understand through 
your earthly senses. I saw, I felt, I touched him, I 
was him, he was me. I was lost in him. What can I 
say to give you an idea of it? I find I cannot convey 
it to you." 

Have you seen C C ? "No; I have not 

seen her, but your father spoke of her to us all. We 
were gathered together, as you would hold a family 
reunion, and he told us many things, he has been to her 
city, and seen her in her home, and he spoke of her as 
a great, and good, and useful spirit." 

Do you see our guardian angels? "Experience does, 
I can see only a radiant light where I am told they 
stand." 

Where do you live now? "My first desire was to be 
in my own house and I have one, small, but in accord- 
ance with my needs, when I become worthy of more, I 
shall obtain it, with you when you wish to alter your 
surroundings, you must give for those changes the 
most precious thing on your plane, gold. Here we must 
give our perceptions of the Divine ; then we obtain all 
that we desire; it is always only by giving that we ob- 
tain more. I mean that we must love." 

How can we love more? "By emptying ourselves of 
all personal desires and striving to know the Divine 
will, and after having learned it, doing it." 

How can we know the Divine will? "Through what 
we have been taught of the Christ life." 

What shuts Christ out from our consciousness when 



INSIGHT 339 

we long" so for him? "The natural life; it comes be- 
tween the spirit and Christ, and in proportion as it is 
overcome and put behind, will grow the consciousness 
of the Divine. The Divine itself is always the same, 
and always with you ; but you do not know and enjoy it, 
because your thoughts are given to your bodies, their 
appetites and their indulgence." 

Should we entirely ignore our bodies ? "No ; but make 
them subordinate. If it were not for sleep, when the 
body is at rest, man could not exist ; so entirely do most 
of mankind ignore the spiritual. During sleep, the soul 
can assert itself, and draw in life and succor from the 
Divine, for then that wayward child, (the body) ceases 
to make undue demands on its master, which when it is 
awake becomes its servant." 

What do you think about the probability of a great 
revolution in the course of a few years? "The unreal 
will change, but in the change, the true and good will 
have an opportunity to grow. The soil in which hu- 
manity is attaining its spiritual life, needs the up- 
heaval that you give your earth, when you plant new 
seed, so do not fear any real danger from what may 
seem to you the end of the old and well-established 
order. 

You do not seem to consider, any amount of suffer- 
ing a calamity ? "Yes ; that man does not do, what he 
has grown to know is the right, is the cause; and I do 
consider it a calamity, that he will not act without these 
upheavals, in which all suffer, the good, as well as the 
erring." 

Do not these upheavals come out of the spiritual 
worlds ? "Yes ; all things take their rise in the spiritual 



340 INSIGHT 

world but that world is not separate from humanity, 
for humanity constitutes the spiritual world. Each 
man who does wrong, ignores the right from his spirit ; 
it is not possible for chemical particles, even though 
they make up your wonderful bodies, to do either good, 
or evil." 

Are we still with Tranquility, for we must take leave 
of her? "No; you came with me to meet Courage and 
we are still here. Do you not see that you sit beside her, 
on her right hand, and she sees and feels your love? 
Courage says, do not cease one moment to live your 
highest life, and love to your fullest capacity, for you 
can enter heaven itself, on your plane, if you do your 
very utmost." 

COMMUNICATION XLVII. 

Present : Endurance, Discernment, Searcher. 

"Ask. I will give you all you can receive. This is 
Tranquility, you are standing at my door." 

Do you know anything of "Insight?" "I know of 
him, his work is on the same plane, all is well with him ; 
he does not come to us ; but we can in some states go to 
him, that is, we come into conscious relations, and com- 
munication with him, as you do now with us." 

What sort of questions do you ask him? "How we 
should order our own lives, for his work is not ours, and 
we know here, that the work belonging to our plane is 
the only thing of interest to us." 

Persons who are seeking spiritual advancement, think 
one should retire from the drudgery of life, and seek in 



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silence and meditation for truth, is this right? "That 
depends on what you mean by the drudgery of life, if it 
is anything that relates to the welfare of the brother, 
do that first, for it is the only way to obtain the high- 
est." 

What did Jesus mean when he said a man should leave 
father and mother, and every one, to follow him? "He 
meant that he should leave the material things of life, 
that is, leave them in their proper place which is second- 
ary by helping his brother, I mean helping him to ele- 
vate his spiritual life, but before that can be done, 
there must be a material basis ; how can you make any 
one hunger and thirst after righteousness, whose bodily 
wants are not first attended to and satisfied. The 
material is the basis and foundation of the spiritual 
on your plane, and there is enough and to spare for all, 
and you must see to it, that all the Father's children 
are fed in His house, which He has made the equal home 
for all. Did not the Master first feed the multitude 
before he taught them ? Live the life, do not take some- 
thing out of his teachings, which suits the mood of the 
moment, but take his life, his acts, his words, consider 
them well, and build for yourself a system, which will 
lead you directly into communion with the Father, but 
do not forget, what you have been taught, from first 
to last, in these interviews, that you cannot come alone." 

Should we not better help all, if we achieved a higher 
spiritual insight ourselves? "But can that be done if 
you shut yourself off from any human soul? That is 
the thought I saw in your mind, that first you must at- 
tain some height alone, and then bring the brother." 



342 INSIGHT 

By what process can we learn to love impersonally? 
"Do not try, love personally first, that is the true way." 

Do not wonderful discoveries of science on this plane, 
produce any results on the higher spiritual planes where 
you are? "!No; it is just the reverse, it is Insight and 
those with him who produce the discoveries you speak 
of. They are laying the spiritual foundation for such 
effects in a world analogous to yours, and you are re- 
ceiving the benefit of that work. Electricity in its 
spiritual nature is one of the elemental forces ; I sud- 
denly know this in order to answer you, it came to me." 

May not electricity change the whole nature of our 
earth life? "Yes; for the better, if your spiritual 
growth keeps pace with your intellectual, and for evil, 
if you do not grow in both planes simultaneously." 

Is not the growth of science a step in the evolution of 
the race? "Yes ; it is a step that has been taken before, 
and resulted in destruction, it remains with you now on 
the physical plane to make it an instrument of such 
tremendous beauty and use that it will transform your 
world into a heaven, for it can be made to do all the 
work, and leave man to develop his higher nature un- 
trammeled by the wants of his body." 

Are we then in danger of destruction? "Not in the 
immediate future, the world knows its duty well; and 
is ready for the great discoveries, but good influences 
will govern and hold them, so that humanity shall have 
every chance to bring itself into' a higher state." 

Can you tell us the origin of the force called electric- 
ity? "No; I do not know, and as I have just said, it 
was suddenly given to me to know, that it was a spirit- 
ual elemental force, but what that means, I do not know, 



INSIGHT 343 

every force on your plane is only possible because of 
some spiritual force behind it, and all forces are in the 
keeping of great spirits chosen for that purpose, but 
they do not originate them, they are all conducted by 
a direct channel from the great creative force, the 
great First Cause." 

Do scientists when they die, continue their work 
where you are? "If they desire, sometimes their real 
desires when first freed from their earthly surroundings 
are quite different from those they there considered of 
the first importance." 

Is there any spiritual significance in the magnetic 
field of the earth? "There most assuredly is, but I am 
not instructed in such things." 

Can you not ask some one to give me this information? 
"I am told man is not ready for any knowledge that 
does not come to him by his own efforts, but I am told 
to say to you that all force is only manifestation of 
one force." 

Does all force come from our sun ? "Yes ; through 
that sun, not inherent in it, but only as a conductor." 

Insight told us it came from a perfected race be- 
hind our sun? "Yes; and the force which they give is 
transmuted by the physical sun for the benefit of the 
material world." 

What is the physical sun? "It is composed of the 
same chemicals as your earth but in a different state 
or stage, and is held in a fluid condition as being more 
pliable to spiritual force." 

What is matter ? "The lowest manifestation of spir- 
itual force, not force itself, for matter is always nega- 
tive." 



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Negative to what? "To the positive that acts upon 
it from spiritual forces." 

Matter is then the result of spiritual force acting 
upon what? "I do not think it acts upon anything, 
spiritual forces act upon it, and produce all that you 
see in your visible universe." 

What is the special force that moves the material 
atoms? "That, my teacher says,, is not known by him. 
Insight would know, but we here do not." 

Can an atom have life of itself? "Yes; because any 
thought of the Divine life, must have life, and each atom 
is a perfect creation and has in it the Divine life, or it 
could not exist at all, each cell of your body, is a life in 
itself, as you feel that you are a life of yourself, and 
you say truly it can have no real existence by itself, 
any more than you can, apart from humanity. Do you 
not see that the health of your whole body depends on 
the health of each individual cell? So in truth the health 
of mankind depends on the soundness of each individual 
man." 

What is the real centre of the perfect man? "The 
Divine life within him. It is in each cell, in every atom ; 
and when this is recognized by each man, he will become 
conscious of the whole, that is, of God. As the cells make 
up your body, so each individual goes to make up the 
body of the perfect man." 

Would it not be better if we prayed to the whole body 
of humanity? "Without doubt, but each cell must look 
also to its own, as well as its brother's health." 

How many elements of matter are there? "I think 
there is really only one, for unity is the foundation of 
what seems diversity." 



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Can there be more than three dimensions ? "We know 
what seems to our spiritual eyes here, matter without 
dimensions at all." 

Can matter be de-materialized? "Yes ; when the 
spiritual force which holds it in place is withdrawn ; 
matter is only a manifestation, and exists only through 
spirit, and when spirit is taken away which holds it in 
certain forms, these forms seem to disappear, although 
they really do not, what looks like a change, is only 
one to your outer vision, your physical senses are most 
easily misled and played upon by spiritual forces, both 
good and bad, idle spirits amuse themselves I am told 
in creating for the moment natural forms." 

Where do they get the matter? "It comes from these 
spiritual forces ; and they are only able to keep it ex- 
istent for a very short time, for matter, which is not 
created, is only forced into new forms. The atmosphere 
of your world is full of the elements of matter, it comes 
from all the surrounding matter, is made use of momen- 
tarily, and then returns from you, if you are near, or 
from any one, or anything, but these things of which you 
think, are not those you love, for these idle spirits have 
no control of other spirits." 

Can you tell me V 's spiritual name? "He 

seems to be still only Expectancy." 

Is his angel here ? "Yes ; she comes at your desire, 
she looks serene, and her expectations are of a high 
order." 

To what society does he belong? "To yours, the 
understanding, but he is not conscious of it as yet." 

Now we must leave you ; we are called away, will you 
say some last word to us? "I have but the one answer 



346 INSIGHT 

to give you, do not tire of it, live the life, love the per- 
son of the brother whom you see before expecting to 
love the God in him, whom you cannot fully see, until 
you and he can love each other." 

COMMUNICATION XLVIII. 

Present : Endurance and Discernment. 

"Tranquility welcomes you, sisters. Ask! for all I 
have is yours, if you will receive it." 

Do you think it is wrong for one who knows that all 
disorder is caused by some mental condition to use 
material means to relieve pain? "You partake of the 
condition of your finite being, try and discover the laws 
that govern it. To render unto Caesar the things that 
are Caesar's, and unto God, the things that are God's, 
is the law." 

Did not Jesus heal by ignoring the physical entirely? 
"He healed through the knowledge of law. There are 
spiritual laws, and natural laws, the Lord healed by his 
application of both ; did not all whom the Master healed, 
do something on the physical plane before they were 
cured ? The mind of man is more busy at this time than 
ever before discovering and applying physical laws, 
and this is as it should be, first that which is natural, 
then that which is spiritual, you must begin with that 
which is lowest, before you can reach the highest." 

Jesus seemed to have used some law outside of any 
known to us, when he produced a piece of money in the 
fish's mouth? "The fish signifies the mind, acting on 
the physical plane, and through physical means. The 



INSIGHT 347 

coin came out of the mouth of the fish in the story of 
our Lord's reply, 'render unto Caesar,' etc. You draw 
too distinctive a line in your thought, between what 
you call planes. All are spiritual according to their 
rightful order, as all come from God, and are parts of 
His manifestation. You are one being, soul, spirit, 
body, all and each has its laws, the lower must receive 
life through the higher, and while connected with it, 
they act, and react on each other, and each has its own 
life, but the lower receives from the higher, for the 
channel is completed from it to God, the body has life, 
which it can impart, as your spirit has life, which can 
originate or seem to do so, but all comes from God. 
Caesar means all that is below you, but as you seem to 
live of yourself, so your body also, seems to live of itself 
and its laws are as important to it, as the laws of the 
spirit are on its plane." 

I find myself wondering whether you do not always 
answer according to what is in our minds ? "Yes ; I 
answer according to what I perceive in the mind of, or 
through the mind of Endurance." 

If that is the case, can you tell us anything we do 
not know? "Yes; I can and do. I see now what is in 
your mind through her's ; and that which you expect 
from thought alone, must come from thought put into 
action. You must think in order to discover the laws 
that govern certain conditions ; after that discovery, 
you must apply those laws, even God has limited him- 
self to act through law." 

Could we speak with Succor today? "She is here." 

Do you see Isabel, father and mother? "They are 
no longer dependent on me, but I know that all is well 



348 INSIGHT 

with them, they are doing their appointed work, and I 
see them when they desire me." 

I am very anxious to hear something of my friend 

Mrs. L , will you see if you can tell me of her? 

"I think of her and will find her. Yes ; I see, she is be- 
ginning her first lessons after the unclothing." 

May I not speak to her? "If you will endeavor to 
remain on her plane and not bring her to yours ; we are 
with her." 

Dear, do you really know we are in communication 
with each other, you in that new life we used to talk of 
and I here, in this old weary one? "I only know it 
through her they call the mother, who has brought you 
to me, but it is much more vividly real than if I had a 
letter in your handwriting; for on earth we could only 
see that with our outer senses, here, we feel it in a way 
which is very convincing and much more real." 

But do we really ever love ? "It will be all right, each 
plane has its loves, which will grow as we advance, for 
you, you grow toward your ideal, that is all we can do 
here or anywhere in our Father's universe." 

Have you been happy since you left this world? 
"More happy at first, than any words we have ever 
used, can describe, seeing myself as I really was brought 
suffering afterwards, but it was willingly borne, and 
now I am feeling what God has in store for all of His 
children." 

What do you now feel was best worth while of all 
you knew or learned in your earth life? "The effort I 
made to love, that is the only thing that God Himself 
can give us." 

We find ourselves obliged to leave you, but I shall ask 



INSIGHT 349 

to come again? "We are not really parted, and we shall 
grow forever, nearer and nearer." 

I want to ask Succor about Endeavor before we stop 
writing? "I see her angel, he does not turn away, but 
he is not yet as happy as his charge should make him." 

What shall she do to make him happy? "Her angel 
says she must learn to love, that through it, she may 
grow." 

Am I a help, or a bar to her growth? "I think you 
are a help ; no one can bar another's progress, all real 
limitations are from within and all true and earnest 
love lifts and helps ; nothing but thought put into ac- 
tion, or manifestation, from God to the lowest atom in 
creation, is of any value. Act therefore, act on your 
plane, all you receive from a higher one, and Tranquil- 
ity will always accompany you." 

COMMUNICATION XLIX. 

Present : Endurance and Discernment. 

"We have learned many things, since you came to me, 
together. This is Experience who speaks, you have 
always been with me, but not as consciously as now." 

While we are yet on this earth in the body are we in 
our real consciousness with those we love in the invis- 
ible, do we hold converse with them in reality, while 
we only seem to be thinking of them here? "You can 
attain to that union, but if you have done so, you real- 
ize it, they are not separated from you except by your 
want of consciousness." 

Is every thing we perceive through the medium of the 



350 INSIGHT 

five senses an illusion? "Not an illusion on your plane, 
it is a process of development like all modes of educa- 
tion, they are only means to an end, not the end itself." 

What is the end itself? "To know that there is but 
one God, and that we are each part of that God, then 
to realize that we already are what we are intended to 
be." 

Is not knowledge absolutely necessary before we can 
enter the kingdom of heaven? "What sort of knowl- 
edge do you mean, I see your thought, you must take 
the road marked out step by step, first that which is 
natural, afterward that which is spiritual." 

How do we know when we may let that which is 
natural go, and take that which is true and spiritual? 
"As you would know in any study, already you have 
attained the spiritual idea, and the natural ceases to 
interest you, but in your place in the universe, the nat- 
ural must always be the stepping stone to the higher, 
so despise not the day of small things, there are no 
small things, so build your house of spiritual bricks, 
but you must cement them with the experiences of your 
natural life." 

Mrs. Eddy claims she has made a further revelation 
to the world, since that of Jesus, is that so? "Not a 
further revelation, but further understanding. Did 
Jesus not say, I will send the comforter, the Holy 
Spirit, He will teach you all things." 

Is Christian Science this comforter? "Yes; He has 
always been with the world, and the world has known 
him not, but now it is more open to his influence, than 
ever before, because in the plan of creation constant 
growth is necessary." 



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What was the true essential meaning of the teach- 
ings of Jesus? "Love to the brother, and this leads to 
love to God. When Jesus said, the first commandment 
was to love God, he meant first in importance, not first 
in order, for how can you love God whom you have not 
seen, if you love not the brother whom you have seen?" 

But we do not know what love means yet, how can 
we love? "Yes; you know, you each have loved unsel- 
fishly, love all as you have loved one, act as if you 
loved, it is the best way to attain to it, you can only 
learn anything by repeated reiteration." 

Is it easier to love, and to know the will of God, after 
one has left this world than when one is here? "That 
depends on your growth, how can you be other than 
yourself, here and there are not real terms." 

Are there no such things as circumstances which may 
affect us more favorably, after we have passed out of 
the body? "But the circumstances are the result of 
your place, each soul is an atom in the spiritual world 
and holds its own place, and cannot leave it, unless and 
until, it progresses out of it." 

Is it not the best way to grow, to deny the senses 
and the mortal mind, and recognize God as all, and man 
as his spiritual idea and reflection? "If you can really 
deny them, but saying the words does not change your 
being. If you really understood the meaning of those 
words, that is if you really experienced that state, you 
would not be where you now are." 

May we not be quite different when we pass from the 
body and have different and more harmonious sur- 
roundings? "That may be, for you have only to come 
into the conscious possession of your true self, to be one 



352 INSIGHT 

with God; and if the surroundings of your present life 
interfere with that consciousness, passing out it may 
change your understanding, and make you seem quite 
other to yourself." 

Is it not right for us to aspire to the highest condi- 
tion of consciousness? "It is; but do not suppose you 
can climb any stairway except step by step, you may 
stand below, and see the bright heaven above, but you 
cannot reach it by saying, 'I am there.' I do not know 
of any one who has done so by so saying, on any plane 
I have reached ; although it is given to the very lowest 
sometimes to perceive that he is heir to all things." 

Is there any reality to sin, sickness and death, except 
that which we give them by thinking they are real? 
"They are real to your present consciousness, although 
death is the least real of all; science is beginning to 
show you on your plane, that there is only life on your 
earth, and that what you call death should be called 
change, your universe is part of God's plan, and you 
cannot ignore it, you must bring it back to its original 
state, when the great creator called it good." 

When God called it good it was spirit, not matter. 
"There is not an atom in all that constitutes your visible 
universe, that has not its origin and being in spirit, and 
your business is to find the God with which each atom 
is alive." 

Does God always manifest as mind, and is not mind 
all there is ? "You think too much of terms ; call God 
mind, call Him what you will, He is all in all, there is 
no matter where He is, but to you, matter is the real 
thing, and unless you can discover spirit, you must live 
in matter; it is only a word, for what you see is God, 



INSIGHT 3S3 

made manifest; His garment by which you perceive 
Him." 

Is Mrs. Eddy leading people aright in her teaching? 
"Yes ; she is leading them toward God, but from what 
I see in your mind, she makes too much of terms, and 
insists too much on the unessential." 

Is there any justification for condemning those who 
cannot see truth in the same way we do? "No ; God 
does not condemn, He loves ; if you aspire to Him, He 
can only be reached by His own methods." 

Are there as great opportunities for progress where 
you are, as we have here ? "As great, and even greater, 
if we come prepared to receive them, but nowhere are 
there better opportunities for love than on your plane." 

Do we have a choice between two things there, as we 
have here ? "Yes ; how can we attain to the good, ex- 
cept through perfect freedom?" 

Are we under authority there to a form of govern- 
ment, and are there certain daily duties which we ought 
to perform? "Yes; our duties are always under gov- 
ernment, if it were not so, we would be sailing without 
a compass, only the perfect good can make its own 
laws and until we are much more developed, we must 
be as children led by the Father's hand, day by day; 
children are free in proportion as they perform the 
duties imposed upon them, and the more we grow into 
the knowledge and practice of good, the less are we 
under law, because we become one with law, do you not 
see?" 

I hope you will think of us sometimes, Experience, 
now that these writings will cease? "Think of you! 
we are always together, and we can never be separated, 



354 INSIGHT 

for you and I are each one in our place ; and accord- 
ing to our light, striving to do the Father's will." 

I know you will be with us as Experience, but I mean 
personally. "You do not mean personally, you mean 
more than that, we are spiritually joined, and nothing 
can separate us ; neither what you call space, or any 
other thing, nothing but the want of love can separate." 

I want to ask about the angel of Endeavor? "He is 
here, he has been with us since we came together, he 
looks contented and I know is growing toward good; 
tell her, from me, if I prove sometimes a hard teacher 
it is only that I put myself at her feet, as a stone by 
which she may ascend, she and you belong to our place, 
as spiritual atoms, we work together." 

Can you tell us anything of Insight? "I only know 
he is far from us now in point of experience and knowl- 
edge, and that he thinks of us always, and works for 
us always without ceasing." 

Do you hear from him? "Not directly, or at least, 
as you would call directly but by means which I can- 
not explain, unless it might be by saying, waves of 
information reach me here, as waves of light reach 
you from your sun." 

Does such communication satisfy you? "I have my 
desires for the unattainable as you have, but I have 
learned what I am trying to tell you, step by step, and 
it is the only way, if I were to see our great and good 
Insight, I could only understand what I am ready to 
receive and so I spend my energies not in vain longings, 
but in taking the necessary steps." 

Is it true that matter is absolutely indestructible, it 
is said that scientists have now found that everything 



INSIGHT 355 

is reducible to heat, and that heat suffers loss that can- 
not be accounted for? "Where can anything be lost? 
No true scientist can say that heat is lost, it also only 
disappears from their present mode of testing it, if a 
thing changes its form it is not lost, if man would spend 
the same energy and time in trying to discover spiritual 
sources, he does in investigating material forces, he 
would much sooner solve the enigma of the universe." 

That is what we are trying to do, when we affirm the 
allness of God? "Yes; but you are skipping, you must 
find truth by taking the garment off the real thing, not 
by saying there is no garment." 

Experience, I wish you would tell me, what to think, 
when I am not thinking anything in particular? "Think 
of the good you are going to put in action." 

Do you not see the angel of Acceptance? "Yes; she 
holds fast to Endurance, her charge is going through 
a necessary experience just now, and endurance best 
expresses it." 

May we not go to Tranquility? "Enter in and be 
at peace. This is Succor, and I wish to speak with you, 
fear not ; you are both doing the work given you to do." 

Do you know that Endurance is going on a long 
journey? "Yes; I see to help those who need you, you 
are led by those who look after you. Do your work 
unselfishly and all things will work together for good." 

How do you lead us, or help us? "By the influence 
of love, the only power in the universe. I am a link in 
the chain. The moment we try to do God's will we have 
become one with Him and with every created being who 
is also making the same effort. I help you all ; put the 
thought of self out of your life, work for the real, not 



356 INSIGHT 

for the temporal and apparent good of those you love ; 
and you will receive all the help you need for then you 
are going with the stream of love that moves the uni- 
verse, not against it." 

(Question lost.) "In going with this stream, in help- 
ing all souls I can reach everywhere, in trying to realize 
my oneness with the Divine." 

Do you go into the spiritual world still? "Not now, 
my work there is done, but I know of my children, they 
are all growing, but there, as with you there is an ebb 
and flood, they seem to us who have reached a calmer 
state, not always to progress." 

I wonder that you are content not to see them ? "Yes ; 
but you do not see it is because I love more understand- 
ing^, now, than when I thought I was the only way for 
them, now, I know they need me less. Do you not see, 
as in the earthly life, the time comes when your child 
is no longer a part of yourself, so in the spiritual life 
that time also arrives." 

Can you tell us anything of Courage? "Yes; she is 
a perfectly lovely soul, who is now enjoying the peace 
of her rest from all troubles, she is not working now, 
but is being cared for and loved." 

Can you tell me something about V ? "He is still 

in the state of Expectancy. I see your loving thought 
of him, and his angel comes to us, he will do what is 
right, there is very loving material in that nature, and 
it will work out its own salvation." 

I fear this may be our last interview by this means? 
"But you will often feel the pulling of the cord that 
holds us together, see that it draws you always toward 
love, and we will work for each other, though we can- 



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not see all we accomplish, there is but one good and if 
we are a part of it, we cannot be separated." 

Will you continue to help Endeavor? "Yes; I will, 
for she is working* with us, and how can we all pull 
one way without helping each other, that is the way we 
can literally bear one another's burdens." 

Where is our dear Tranquility? "Tranquility is 
here and wishes you to know, she also joins hands with 
all those you have brought to us." 

Dear Tranquility, we love her so ! "Yes ; that word 
is our true bond, which makes that other word, parting, 
impossible; you have all grown since I first came into 
your life and we must all try to hold to that central 
idea of love and do our work in the Father's plan. 
Think of it, we are His chosen forces, and all that we 
see, and feel, and do, is part of Him." 

You have done so much to help us. "Yes ; it is not 
what we have told you, but by what you have come to 
understand of yourself. We could do none of your 
work, you must do it all. Be brave and true, and per- 
severe to the end, that is all I can say to you, or any 
of my Father's children." 



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